Indian-origin man will get 18-year detention, 12 lashes for intercourse assault of maid

An Indian-origin male repeat intercourse offender was sentenced to 18 years of preventive detention and 12 strokes for the sexual assault of a maid in Singapore, a media report stated on Tuesday.

Preventive detention is imposed on recalcitrant offenders so as to defend the folks from them.

Mark Kalaivanan Tamilarasan, 44, had contested and was convicted of 4 costs of aggravated sexual assault, home trespass to commit sexual assault, outrage of modesty and impersonation of a public servant, reported Channel News Asia.

Called a repeat intercourse offender, he had damaged right into a flat in July 2017 whereas intoxicated and attacked a maid who was ironing garments, earlier than sexually assaulting her.

This was shortly after being launched from 16 years’ of jail for rape costs.

Deputy Public Prosecutors Chew Xin Ying and Sheldon Lim had pushed for a most of 20 years’ preventive detention for Kalaivanan, after a report discovered him appropriate for such a punishment.

However, on the final sentencing listening to in February, Kalaivanan’s uncle had requested to deal with the court docket, earlier than pleading in emotive language for the court docket to impose a gag order on his nephew’s id.

He additionally claimed he had seen his nephew in jail and that he had proven regret.

On account of this, Justice Pang Khang Chau ordered one other preventive detention suitability report back to be ready earlier than giving his sentence.

The second report had the identical conclusions, and the prosecution maintained their place in asking for 20 years’ of preventive detention for Kalaivanan.

They objected to the defence’s request for the sentence to be backdated to take into consideration Kalaivanan’s six years on remand, saying that preventive detention was totally different from remand.

On Monday, Kalaivanan’s uncle requested once more to talk.

Defence lawyer Foo Ho Chew stated his shopper was represented and something ought to be stated by means of authorized counsel.

Edited By:

Prateek Chakraborty

Published On:

Aug 8, 2023