Ex-teacher jailed 10 weeks, fined for taking voyeuristic videos of colleagues, students and policeman

SINGAPORE — After more than a year of taking voyeuristic videos of his male colleagues and students, a secondary school teacher was finally nabbed when he filmed a police investigation officer who was in a condominium clubhouse’s toilet. On Wednesday (March 23), the teacher, who has since left the education sector and no longer teaches in a school, was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail and a S$2,000 fine. The 49-year-old Singaporean man cannot be named due to a court order to protect his victims’ identities. He pleaded guilty last month to two charges each of committing public nuisance and making an obscene film, with another six similar charges taken into consideration for sentencing. He will begin serving his sentence on April 19. His cousin agreed to continue posting bail for him. In her sentencing remarks, District Judge Melissa Tan said that the man’s mental condition — persistent depressive disorder with anxious distress — was not so significant as to displace the sentencing principle of deterrence. He was aware of the nature and wrongfulness of his actions, the judge noted. The teacher’s defence counsel had submitted a psychiatric report stating that he suffered from severe depression with underlying voyeuristic disorder. However,…
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