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S'pore man seeks protection order against wife who allegedly poked his private part with needles & hit him with massage stick for unsatisfactory massages
She also allegedly threatened to kill him using acupuncture on a pressure point.
A man in Singapore sought multiple court orders against his wife, alleging that she had beaten him, poked his private parts with needles and accused him of having affairs.
According to CNA, he had his applications dismissed after a magistrate found that he had not demonstrated the need for protection.
The judgment, published on May 22, saw the man apply for a personal protection order (PPO), a no-contact order, a counselling order, and a mandatory treatment order against his wife.
The hearing before Magistrate Soh Kian Peng was fixed for Apr. 16, but the wife did not appear.
She said she was receiving medical treatment in China and could not travel to Singapore, though this explanation was rejected by the magistrate as she failed to provide a valid medical certificate.
She asked for the hearing to proceed in her absence and said she would accept the outcome.
The husband's claims
He claimed his wife had demanded his phone, suspecting infidelity after he had yet to transfer her a Government Assurance Package payout.When he refused, she allegedly retrieved a 15cm knife from the kitchen and pointed it at him.
Her brother intervened, and the situation de-escalated after the man transferred the money and she found no evidence of an affair on his phone.
The man further alleged that his wife later used three acupuncture needles to poke his testicles, claiming she was preventing his private parts from "turning black."
The man said he was "terrified" by his wife's actions and described the act as "very painful".
She then allegedly ordered him to give her a massage, hitting him with a massage stick whenever he did it wrongly.
He subsequently fell asleep between 3 to 4am, and made a police report the next day.
According to the judgment, the man's key allegation centred on an incident on Dec. 6, 2025.
He also described a pattern of alleged abuse:
- Being forced to kneel and crawl around the house 100 times whenever she suspected him of infidelity;
- Being beaten if he came home late from work;
- Having to hand over his entire salary monthly, receiving only S$4 to S$5 a day as a food allowance; and
- Being forced to wash her clothes and give her nightly massages.
He also alleged she had threatened to kill him using acupuncture on a pressure point, citing her knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Dismissal of the application
In order for the man's PPO application to be approved, he had to prove, on a balance of probabilities that:
- The wife had either committed family violence on him, or that she was likely to do so; and
- The PPO was necessary for his protection or personal safety: section 60A(1) of the Women’s Charter 1961.
According to the judgment, the magistrate said that even setting aside questions about the credibility of the husband's account, the case failed on the second requirement.
He added that the alleged incidents occurred when the couple were living together in a flat that belonged to the wife's sister.
Since then, the husband had moved out, cut off all contact with his wife and her relatives, and taken steps to keep his current address hidden from them.
"Given that the husband and wife were now living apart, and that the husband had since cut off all contact with the wife and her side of the family, this, in my judgment, removed the fuel for any further incidents between the two of them," he said.
As such, he concluded that the man had not demonstrated the necessity of granting a PPO.
Given that this application was dismissed, the man's other applications were also unsuccessful.
