Man who tricked 11 women into sex has jail term more than doubled after appeal dismissed

SINGAPORE: A person who posed as an agent for rich "sugar daddies" and tricked 11 women into finishing up sex acts with him had his jail term more than doubled after an appeal for a shorter sentence was dismissed.De Beers Wong Tian Jun's jail term was enhanced to eight years and 5 months on Wednesday (Dec 1), from his unique sentence of three-and-a-half years. The earlier nice of S$20,000 was unchanged."Not only did the appellant act with clear premeditation and subterfuge, his behaviour was simply cruel," mentioned Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. “He showed no remorse or doubt whatsoever when going about his spree of offending behaviour.”Wong pleaded responsible in March to 10 expenses, together with dishonest, felony intimidation and possession of obscene images for circulation. Wong devised a scheme in 2015 to promote for "sugar babes" on behalf of rich "sugar daddies", as he needed to have paid sex however was unwilling to pay the costs he had seen online for such providers, based on court docket paperwork. He put up adverts posing as a contract agent who linked such escorts to well-to-do purchasers, promising funds of between S$8,000 and S$20,000 a month.Between April 2015 and January 2016, at the least 11 women aged between 18 and 24 fell for the scheme. Wong would first solicit nude images from the women "for vetting" and ask them to have interaction in sexual acts with him so he might consider them earlier than recommending them to his “clients”. He would then threaten to disseminate the nude images of the victims if they didn't proceed to have sex with him. 

WONG'S PSYCHIATRIC REPORT "OF NO ASSISTANCE"

In his judgment launched on Wednesday, Chief Justice Menon addressed a psychiatric report Wong and his attorneys had used to assist their arguments for a shorter sentence. The psychiatrist’s report “was of no assistance”, because it was primarily based “entirely on the truthfulness of the information” offered by Wong, Chief Justice Menon mentioned. “This was problematic because, as it turned out, (Wong’s) account … was riven with falsehoods”. He additionally took situation with the timing of the report, noting that Wong consulted the psychiatrist more than 4 years after his crimes. “There was no reasoning in the report explaining how (the doctor) was able to extrapolate his conclusions based on consultations in October and November 2020 to what (Wong) was suffering some five years prior,” Chief Justice Menon mentioned. Chief Justice Menon mentioned that Wong's behaviour “demonstrated a cynical, exploitative, and simply cruel edge over an extended period of time and in relation to multiple victims”.He famous that Wong had duped his victims and “ensnared (them) in a vicious trap by his compromising them, while he secured sexually explicit photos and videos and sexual acts under false pretenses for his own gratification”. In response to Wong’s argument that not sufficient weight was positioned on his clear document, Chief Justice Menon famous that Wong had dedicated at the least 36 separate offences in opposition to the victims in the midst of round a yr. “Any mitigating weight which could have been positioned on his clear document was, when seen in that context, non-existent.“The appellant was simply ‘fortunate’, in a manner of speaking, to not have been caught earlier,” Chief Justice Menon mentioned.