SINGAPORE – A man purchased a spy camera that regarded like a USB charger and planted the system in his 13-year-old daughter’s bed room to record nude videos of the unsuspecting woman.
His spouse later discovered about what he had completed and alerted the police.
The 43-year-old was on Wednesday (April 20) sentenced to 18 weeks’ jail and ordered to be given one stroke of the cane after he pleaded responsible to two counts of voyeurism.
He can’t be named owing to a gag order to defend his daughter’s id.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Andre Ong stated the man purchased the spy camera earlier than July 2019.
The system contained a sign emitter, permitting it to transmit real-time footage to linked cell gadgets inside a sure radius.
The camera additionally allowed the consumer of the gadgets to record footage.
The father was in his Jurong flat on July 6, 2020, when he entered his daughter’s bed room at round 7.20am and planted the system in a nook, dealing with her laundry basket.
He activated an software on his cell phone that allowed him to view the real-time photos transmitted from the spy camera.
After making certain that the transmitted video feed was steady, he adjusted the spy camera’s course barely and left the room, solely to return minutes later to readjust the angle of the system.
The man left the room quickly after and the court docket heard that his face was clearly seen within the footage recorded.
The camera managed to seize his daughter within the nude earlier than she placed on her college uniform and left.
The man returned to her room at round 7.40am to retrieve the camera. He later transferred the videos to his laptop computer and cell phone.
The offender seen the clips “for his own pleasure”, the court docket heard.
The DPP stated he returned to his daughter’s room once more at across the identical time the subsequent day to commit an identical offence.
On Aug 2, 2020, his 36-year-old spouse discovered that he had recorded and saved non-public videos of their daughter. The girl alerted the police later that month.
Court paperwork don’t state how she found the incriminating clips.
The prosecutor informed the court docket: “During investigations, the accused denied the allegations towards him and claimed that he had put in the spy camera to monitor the sufferer learning in her bed room.
“Investigations revealed that no footage was recorded of the victim studying in her bedroom.”
For every voyeurism cost involving a sufferer beneath 14 years previous, an offender could be jailed for up to two years and fined, or caned.
