Woman pleads guilty to distributing obscene photo
By Kimberly Spykerman
POSTED: 12 Aug 2013 2:55 PM
SINGAPORE: A 28-year-old woman on Monday pleaded guilty to distributing obscene photographs which led to her victim being terminated from her job.
Siti Nurazlin Samat admitted that she had done so because she wanted to injure the victim's reputation.
The victim's identity cannot be revealed, but it is understood she was a co-curriculum programme executive at a secondary school.
The court heard that Siti's fiance was previously in a relationship with the victim.
Siti was upset because she felt her fiance's family preferred the victim to her, and that they were constantly comparing them.
Sometime in February 2011, Siti then posed as a male police officer and contacted the victim via text message, pretending to be interested in her.
They then got into an online relationship, where Siti would communicate with the victim daily using a fake email address and Facebook account, as well as borrowed mobile phones.
During the course of the "relationship", the victim then sent photographs of her family, as well as 10 photographs of herself naked.
Siti then saved these photos, with the intent to use them to injure the victim's reputation.
She later posed as the police officer's girlfriend as a ploy to end the relationship.
In December 2011, Siti then sent a letter to the principal of the secondary school, pretending to be a concerned parent.
She enclosed four photographs of the naked victim and said that she had found them in her son's mathematics textbook while cleaning his room and that he had received them from the victim.
She then demanded that the victim's employment be terminated.
As a result, the victim was dismissed from her position.
At the time of the offence, Siti was a remote equipment specialist working for PSA.
Siti will be back in court on 20 August for her mitigation.
For giving false information to a public servant, Siti could be jailed up to one year and fined up to S$5,000.
For distributing the obscene photographs, she could be jailed up to three months and fined.
- CNA/xq
By Kimberly Spykerman
POSTED: 12 Aug 2013 2:55 PM
SINGAPORE: A 28-year-old woman on Monday pleaded guilty to distributing obscene photographs which led to her victim being terminated from her job.
Siti Nurazlin Samat admitted that she had done so because she wanted to injure the victim's reputation.
The victim's identity cannot be revealed, but it is understood she was a co-curriculum programme executive at a secondary school.
The court heard that Siti's fiance was previously in a relationship with the victim.
Siti was upset because she felt her fiance's family preferred the victim to her, and that they were constantly comparing them.
Sometime in February 2011, Siti then posed as a male police officer and contacted the victim via text message, pretending to be interested in her.
They then got into an online relationship, where Siti would communicate with the victim daily using a fake email address and Facebook account, as well as borrowed mobile phones.
During the course of the "relationship", the victim then sent photographs of her family, as well as 10 photographs of herself naked.
Siti then saved these photos, with the intent to use them to injure the victim's reputation.
She later posed as the police officer's girlfriend as a ploy to end the relationship.
In December 2011, Siti then sent a letter to the principal of the secondary school, pretending to be a concerned parent.
She enclosed four photographs of the naked victim and said that she had found them in her son's mathematics textbook while cleaning his room and that he had received them from the victim.
She then demanded that the victim's employment be terminated.
As a result, the victim was dismissed from her position.
At the time of the offence, Siti was a remote equipment specialist working for PSA.
Siti will be back in court on 20 August for her mitigation.
For giving false information to a public servant, Siti could be jailed up to one year and fined up to S$5,000.
For distributing the obscene photographs, she could be jailed up to three months and fined.
- CNA/xq
