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Woman almost raped by late night intruder
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A young woman was attacked by a man in her own bedroom and nearly raped.
Ms Tan, a 22-year-old lawyer trainee, recounted the attack to The Straits Times.
On 21 January, she had gone home to Yishun after a night out with friends.
She described what happened after she got home.
"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."
At the sudden words, she saw a man in his 20s, "rather good-looking and well spoken" in the dim lights of her room.
Although shocked, she told the man to get out and added, "my parents are in the next room".
To this, the man replied, "Yes, they are fast asleep".
Frightened by his reply, Ms Tan tried to scream but the man lunged forward and covered her mouth with his hand and pinned her to the bed.
While attempting to subdue her, the man tried to pull off her underwear.
Resisting the man, Ms Tan struggled and tried to kick and claw at him but found that he was protected by a thick jacket.
She resorted to reaching towards her bedstand for something to hit the man with.
That got the man's attention and she felt the man shifting his weight away from her.
Because of this, she managed to push his hand away to scream.
Her parents and brothers woke up, ran to her room and chased after the man, who managed to flee through the front door.
Ms Tan filed a police report the same night and the case has been classified as an outrage of modesty.
For this, the man could be jailed for up to 2 years, caned, or fined, or any combination of the three.
On how the man could have sneaked into her room, Ms Tan believes that the man could have slipped in through the main door after her.
She explained that her flat's door is "the heavy type that swings shut and latches by itself", so most of the time, the family simply lets the door swing shut by itself.
Ms Tan no longer feels safe in her own home and is thinking of getting a dog, specifically a fierce breed that can keep intruders out.