SINGAPOREAN scholar Cheong Jia Jin was sentenced to eight months in jail for assaulting a girl whereas on a date with her. The 24-year-old reportedly requested the lady to shoot a TikTok video collectively within the stairwell of a carpark at Changi Airport.
However, as quickly as filming started, he proceeded to strangle her, inflicting her to lose consciousness.
“He decided to choke her until she was unconscious so that he could smell her feet as he had a fetish. The victim struggled for around 15 seconds, trying in vain to grab something to break free, before she became unconscious,” stated Deputy Public Prosecutor Norine Tan in the course of the courtroom listening to of the case.
Cheong then lifted her shirt, intending to contact her breasts whereas she was unconscious. But rapidly modified his thoughts moments earlier than she awoke.
Once she regained consciousness, the lady discovered herself resting on Cheong’s lap. She then instantly composed herself earlier than gathering her issues and working away.
She headed in the direction of a automobile and defined to the motive force that somebody was making an attempt to kill her. She referred to as the police and Cheong surrendered after they contacted him that night time.
Cheong has since pleaded responsible to a single cost of voluntarily inflicting damage and was jailed for eight months. As for the lady, she had bruises and ache round her neck. She even had to go to a health care provider for her nervousness and panic assaults months after the assault.
According to a coronary heart specialist, she skilled signs of numbness and chilly sweating.
“(The woman) feared for her life in the aftermath and was traumatised. What cannot be denied is how this affected her months after the attack,” stated the prosecution.
There was additionally potential hurt as choking could lead on to loss of life and Cheong was conscious of it. For the offence, he may have confronted three years in jail and a wonderful of $5,000 (RM15,440).
