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I didn't treat her like sex slave: Alleged rapist
By Elena Chong
A SELF-EMPLOYED man accused of raping a young woman he met in a club two years ago yesterday denied that he had treated the 22-year-old like a sex slave.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Leong Wing Tuck had said to Ong Mingwee on the stand during cross-examination that the man's actions clearly showed this. The 28-year-old accused disagreed.
He had taken the woman home after meeting her at Zouk in Jiak Kim Street, where they had danced together.
He had testified that the woman had danced so sexily that he became embarrassed because a lot of people were looking at them.
He was to have taken her home after the club closed at about 4am. Instead, he told the taxi driver to go to his home in Toa Payoh North, above his family's provision shop, which he manages.
He told the court in his defence that they had kissed in the cab and she had agreed to go to his place.
The woman's evidence was heard in camera earlier this year.
The prosecution's case is that the woman made frantic phone calls to her mother and her girlfriend on Feb 12, 2009. She was crying and shouting when she told her mother to come and get her, saying she was scared.
Ong had spoken to the woman's mother on the phone for a while before he returned to the room where the woman was. He claimed that both of them were not drunk.
In his statement to the police, he claimed that he had asked her if he could have sex with her before she left and she nodded her head.
Earlier, when asked by DPP Leong why the woman he had invited to his flat was crying and had said three times that she was afraid and wanted to go home, Ong said he did not know. Neither did he ask her.
Asked why he kept the woman in the room despite the fact that she clearly wanted to go home, he said: 'Because I like her and I thought I could calm her down.'
He disagreed with the prosecutor that he had 'full control' of the situation.
The DPP had also referred him to the toll records detailing a series of phone calls and text messages between the woman and her girlfriend and mother.
The girlfriend's first text message to the woman was at 4.43am to find out if she was home yet as it was their practice to look out for each other to ensure they arrived home safely.
The last call was recorded at 6.15am when the mother called Ong, two minutes after he called her.
Ong, who looked tired and worried on the stand, had asked for two short breaks during the morning's cross-examination after disclosing he was 'facing pressure' from the public and the media glare.
If convicted, he could be jailed for up to 20 years and fined or caned. The trial continues.
By Elena Chong
A SELF-EMPLOYED man accused of raping a young woman he met in a club two years ago yesterday denied that he had treated the 22-year-old like a sex slave.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Leong Wing Tuck had said to Ong Mingwee on the stand during cross-examination that the man's actions clearly showed this. The 28-year-old accused disagreed.
He had taken the woman home after meeting her at Zouk in Jiak Kim Street, where they had danced together.
He had testified that the woman had danced so sexily that he became embarrassed because a lot of people were looking at them.
He was to have taken her home after the club closed at about 4am. Instead, he told the taxi driver to go to his home in Toa Payoh North, above his family's provision shop, which he manages.
He told the court in his defence that they had kissed in the cab and she had agreed to go to his place.
The woman's evidence was heard in camera earlier this year.
The prosecution's case is that the woman made frantic phone calls to her mother and her girlfriend on Feb 12, 2009. She was crying and shouting when she told her mother to come and get her, saying she was scared.
Ong had spoken to the woman's mother on the phone for a while before he returned to the room where the woman was. He claimed that both of them were not drunk.
In his statement to the police, he claimed that he had asked her if he could have sex with her before she left and she nodded her head.
Earlier, when asked by DPP Leong why the woman he had invited to his flat was crying and had said three times that she was afraid and wanted to go home, Ong said he did not know. Neither did he ask her.
Asked why he kept the woman in the room despite the fact that she clearly wanted to go home, he said: 'Because I like her and I thought I could calm her down.'
He disagreed with the prosecutor that he had 'full control' of the situation.
The DPP had also referred him to the toll records detailing a series of phone calls and text messages between the woman and her girlfriend and mother.
The girlfriend's first text message to the woman was at 4.43am to find out if she was home yet as it was their practice to look out for each other to ensure they arrived home safely.
The last call was recorded at 6.15am when the mother called Ong, two minutes after he called her.
Ong, who looked tired and worried on the stand, had asked for two short breaks during the morning's cross-examination after disclosing he was 'facing pressure' from the public and the media glare.
If convicted, he could be jailed for up to 20 years and fined or caned. The trial continues.
