SINGAPORE — A 31-year-old man on Wednesday (Dec 15) became the first to be dealt with for his role in a sex-themed chat group on messaging application Telegram.
Lincoln Anthony Fernandez was jailed eight weeks and fined S$20,000, after pleading guilty in a district court to two counts of transmitting obscene material and one count of possessing obscene films.
Three other charges of transmitting obscene material were taken into consideration for sentencing.
The court heard that he had joined the chat group “Sam’s lots of CB collection” in late 2017, which is linked to the sex-themed online forum Sammyboy. The forum contained hyperlinks allowing users to join the group.
Fernandez eventually became an administrator of the group, which had more than 25,000 members at one point. He shared lewd photos of women that he had either gotten from other Telegram group chats or downloaded from the Internet.
When Fernandez and three other men were charged in court, the police said that the material circulated on it included leaked sexual videos and images of women
These also included nude photos, those of women dressed scantily or in compromising positions, and videos of sexual acts that were exploitative of the women because they circulated the materials in the group without their consent, the police added.
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