


He ensured that the video feed was stable, adjusted the camera slightly and left the room. He knew that she needed to change into her school uniform to go to school.Īfter activating the device, he pulled up an application on his mobile phone that allowed him to view the real-time footage. On three consecutive days in 2020 - July 5, 6 and 7 - he went into his daughter’s bedroom to plant the camera in a corner, adjusting it to face her laundry basket. This allowed the device users to record the footage on the devices. The camera had a signal emitter that allowed it to transmit real-time footage to mobile devices linked to it within a certain radius. The court heard that around July 2019, he bought the spy camera to “covertly view the victim changing privately in her bedroom”. Court papers did not state his occupation. He cannot be named due to a gag order to protect the identity of his daughter, who is now aged 15 and in secondary school. District Judge Chee Min Ping took into consideration another voyeurism charge for sentencing purposes. The Indian national had pleaded guilty last month to two voyeurism charges. His jail sentence was backdated to April 1 when he was remanded. On Wednesday (April 20), the 43-year-old was sentenced to 18 weeks’ jail and one stroke of the cane for his actions from 2019 to 2020. When the authorities began investigating, he denied the allegations and claimed he had installed the spy camera to monitor his daughter’s studies. His wife then lodged a police report several days after finding the obscene footage on his laptop. SINGAPORE - After buying a spy camera disguised as a USB charger, a man fixed the device in his 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom and recorded a few video clips of her changing into her school uniform.
