Intruder tried to rape woman as family slept
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An intruder entered the bedroom of a young trainee lawyer in the dead of night recently and attempted to rape her as her parents slept in the next room.
This happened in the family's Yishun maisonette two weeks ago, shortly after the 22-year-old had returned from a Saturday night out with her friends.
Telling her story on condition that she be known only as Ms Tan, she said: 'I took about 15 minutes to clean up and when I got under my blanket, I heard a man's voice at the foot of my bed telling me that I did not lock my front door.'
She explained that the door to her flat is the heavy type, which swings shut and latches by itself.
-- ST
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Weird people all around nowadays...
Everyone needs to live in condo liao...
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xiao mei mei, you never lock the door...
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Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:
xiao mei mei, you never lock the door...
i got lock lor.
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AN INTRUDER entered the bedroom of a young trainee lawyer in the dead of night recently and attempted to rape her as her parents slept in the next room.
This happened in the family's Yishun maisonette two weeks ago, shortly after the 22-year-old had returned from a Saturday night out with her friends.
Telling her story on condition that she be known only as Ms Tan, she said: 'I took about 15 minutes to clean up and when I got under my blanket, I heard a man's voice at the foot of my bed telling me that I did not lock my front door.'
She explained that the door to her flat is the heavy type, which swings shut and latches by itself.
'I guess most of the time, we just let it swing shut,' she said, adding that the man could have slipped in after her.
She said that by the dim light of her night lamp, she could make out the intruder to be in his 20s, 'rather good-looking and well-spoken'.
'When I told him to get out and that my parents were in the next room, he said, 'Yes, and they are fast asleep.' That was when I screamed,' she said.
He lunged forward and covered her mouth with his hand to stifle her, pinning her to the bed with his weight.
'Then he tried removing my underwear. I tried to kick and scratch but could not penetrate his thick jacket. Then I tried to grab something from my bedstand to hit him with,' she said.
'That probably took his attention off me and I could feel his weight lift off me. I pushed his hand away from my mouth and screamed as loudly as I could. That woke up my parents and brothers,' she said.
Her family chased after him but the intruder dashed out the front door, running past a neighbour who was smoking along the corridor.
Ms Tan said her neighbour thought the stranger was her boyfriend, and made no effort to stop him.
Her brother drove her to a police post, where she filed a report.
'I was told the case has been classified as outrage of modesty as there is no classification under the law for attempted rape here,' she said.
Police confirmed that the incident was reported at a police post in Yishun on Jan 21, and that they were investigating the case.
Under the law, anyone found guilty of assaulting or using criminal force on another person, intending to outrage her modesty, could be jailed for up to two years, caned or fined.
Ms Tan said she felt violated, and that the safety and sanctity of her home and bedroom had been violated as well.
She said: 'I jump at every sound, every shadow and I haven't had a good night's sleep since that night.'
She added: 'To think I lived for three years in East London, where the crime rate is said to be high, while studying for my law degree and nothing of this sort happened. Yet in safe Singapore, this happened.'
Her experience is similar to an incident in September last year, in which a teacher had her chest and groin caressed by a man who had reached in through the window of her ground-floor bedroom in her house in Pasir Panjang.
That intruder, since caught, pleaded guilty to outrage of modesty. No information is available on the penalty handed down to him.
In the first half of last year, there were 707 cases of outrage of modesty - 60 cases, or 9 per cent, more than the 647 cases in the corresponding period the year before.
Police urge the public to protect themselves and their loved ones by avoiding dim, secluded places, enlisting a family member or friend as company when returning home alone or late, and being alert to their surroundings.
Meanwhile, Ms Tan said she is thinking about getting a dog - 'none of those toy breeds, but one that is fierce enough to keep intruders out'.
- ST
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Old man, how could you?!?!
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old man or young man??
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What old man??
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Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:
xiao mei mei, you never lock the door...
Maybe he broke in through the window, and saw the pretty girl.
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must be a chio chio bu
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wth
nice next time be sure to see the door locked -
heng ah
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girls better learn some MMA moves for self protection.
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Wrong, girls better have a bedside table full of ching-a-lings, for ammo.
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have a bodyguard sleep next to you
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This is a disturbing incident.....
The disturbing part is......she said he is rather good looking.....
Huh..?!
Why ...?
Why like that...?
What does it mean....?
The second disturbing part is.........this is the second time I read a news article about a young woman getting molested and then the victim describing the perpetrator as a good looking guy.........It happened also to Ms. Ris Low when she was molested on the street and it was covered in the news.....
I dont know what that means...?
It is truely disturbing......
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
have a bodyguard sleep next to you
where to apply?
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a lot of aliens in ag now, sg is not like 10 years ago aready. stop gossiping with neightbour and lock the dorr before you immediately.
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Originally posted by troublemaker2005:
a lot of aliens in ag now, sg is not like 10 years ago aready. stop gossiping with neightbour and lock the dorr before you immediately.
i disagree
we should mingle and get to know the new singaporeans
they help our economy and provide jobs to the loser singaporeans like us.
the singaporean women also get to marry off easier
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Originally posted by Li hao Lim Matthew:
i disagree
we should mingle and get to know the new singaporeans
they help our economy and provide jobs to the loser singaporeans like us.
the singaporean women also get to marry off easier
You work for PAP?
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Originally posted by Veggie Bao:
This is a disturbing incident.....
The disturbing part is......she said he is rather good looking.....
Huh..?!
Why ...?
Why like that...?
What does it mean....?
The second disturbing part is.........this is the second time I read a news article about a young woman getting molested and then the victim describing the perpetrator as a good looking guy.........It happened also to Ms. Ris Low when she was molested on the street and it was covered in the news.....
I dont know what that means...?
It is truely disturbing......
so she should lie and say that he is a fat ugly looking monster?
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Originally posted by Li hao Lim Matthew:
i disagree
we should mingle and get to know the new singaporeans
they help our economy and provide jobs to the loser singaporeans like us.
the singaporean women also get to marry off easier
sorry,
the only loser sgreans is you , not me haha -
Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
You work for PAP?
he is a foeign pig, online, even if a dog posing using the computer, no one knows.
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Well she could have described him in a more neutral and general terms.....but saying he is good looking means......there is some....some kind of......I believe it is a form of subconscious Freudian slip......and it's just a bit disturbing....
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Yishun bedroom 'molester' nabbed
SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 23-year-old man believed to be involved in a case of outrage of modesty in Yishun.
During the wee hours of 21 January 2012, the victim, who is in her 20s, was sleeping in her bedroom when a man suddenly appeared in her room.
The intruder then restrained the victim and molested her. He fled when the victim put up a struggle and cried for help.
The victim and her awoken family members gave chase but lost the intruder along the way.
The distraught victim then lodged a police report.
Officers from the Ang Mo Kio Division investigated the case and established the identity of the suspect.
The suspect was spotted at Yishun Street 21 at about 6.30pm on Monday.
The officers moved in and placed him under arrest.
The suspect will be charged in court on Wednesday. If convicted, he could be jailed two to 10 years and caned.
- CNA/wk