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A TAIWANESE man who molested a woman on board an MRT train last August was fined $4,000 yesterday.
Hsu Ming Ta, 42, a permanent resident working in an IT company, admitted touching the buttocks of a finance administrator on Aug 4 while the train was between the Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar stations.
The court heard that the 27-year-old woman was facing the doorway when she felt something brush against her, but dismissed it as an accident.
But then she felt another touch and yet another, and heard a commuter shout: “Hoi, what are you doing?”
She immediately turned around and saw Hsu standing very close to her.
Two men who saw him touching her helped her detain him.
Hsu, who is married with a daughter, could have been jailed up to two years or caned or fined or received any combination of these punishments.