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SINGAPORE – A 24-year-old university student given probation for molesting a woman at an MRT station had his probation sentence overturned following a successful High Court appeal by the prosecution.
Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon on Monday (April 27) sentenced Terence Siow Kai Yuan to two weeks’ imprisonment for his offence, finding that the undergraduate had not shown “an extremely strong propensity for reform”.
Siow, an applied mathematics student at the National University of Singapore, had pleaded guilty to one charge of outrage of modesty in September last year.
He was subsequently given 21 months of supervised probation and 150 hours of community service by District Judge Jasvender Kaur.
Two charges for similar offences were taken into consideration during his sentencing.
Siow was 22 when he committed the offences against a 28-year-old woman during a train ride on the North East Line and at Serangoon MRT station on Sept 12, 2018.
On that day, he sat next to the woman and touched her thigh.When she moved away from him, he touched her again.
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