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HE HAD a successful career in banks and is well-known in the social service circles, having led a charitable organisation that runs moral education centres, children’s homes and a shelter for abused women and teenage mothers.
But Alfie Othman, 40, is now facing three charges of insulting and outraging the modesty of two women, both 23.
It was not immediately clear from court documents obtained by The Straits Times which woman was the subject of his alleged attention in each of the three incidents, said to have occurred between December 2008 and early last year.
Charged in court last week, he is out on bail of $10,000.
Two of the three charges he faces are for insulting the modesty of a woman, an offence which carries a jail term of up to a year, or a fine, or both.
The first of these alleges that some time in December 2008, in a Turkish restaurant in Shaw Towers, he had asked one of the women whether she was a virgin and, if not, what sexual positions she had tried before.
The second charge alleges that early last year, as he drove to Keppel Club, he also asked his female companion whether she was a virgin.
The third charge he faces is for a more serious offence of outraging the modesty of a woman, which comes with a jail term of up to two years, a fine, caning, or any combination of these punishments.
It is alleged that in March last year, while in a car parked at Shaw Towers, he had rubbed the right thigh of the woman with him.
The case has been fixed for a pre-trial conference on Dec 6.
Alfie, who is married, was one of two vice-presidents of voluntary welfare organisation Pertapis until he stepped down from the position at the beginning of this month, a Pertapis spokesman told The Straits Times yesterday.
He had chaired the Pertapis Centre for Women and Girls, the Pertapis Children’s Home and set up Ikhlas Catering, a catering kitchen staffed by former offenders and single mothers.
His career in finance spanned 12 years, when he was with JP Morgan and Citibank.
Alfie was also a member of Community and Parents in Support of Schools, a group that encourages parents and the community to work together with schools to help children learn better.
He was also on the 11-member Primary Education Review and Implementation Committee set up in 2008 to study ways to enhance primary education here.
