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A senior police investigator with 17 years of experience preyed on two women suspected of being sex workers while they were in custody.
In what a district judge called a serious abuse of trust, Lee Sze Chiat, 39, a Senior Staff Sergeant, molested one woman and got the other to perform sex acts on him.
All this happened while the women, both Chinese nationals aged 28 and 29 respectively, were in handcuffs in an interview room at Jurong Police Divisional Headquarters.
Sentencing Lee to a year behind bars and a stroke of the cane yesterday, District Judge Christopher Tan said the fact the molest victim was under restraints cannot be ignored.
“What’s aggravating is that these restraints were actually physical strictures that the law empowers policemen to use to protect the innocent,” said the judge, who also took into account Lee’s guilty plea.
“But they were used to subjugate her to fulfil his desires.”
Lee pleaded guilty to one count of molestation and an offence under the Police Force Act.
Two other related charges were taken into consideration.
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