A maid in Singapore was jailed for three months and one week after pleading guilty to one charge of voyeurism and one charge of theft.
According to CNA, Rike Kusnul Kotimah, who is 25-year-old took a video of the four-year-old boy that exposed his buttoc*s and private parts, and later uploaded the clip on TikTok.
“Taken As Memento” : Maid
Rike claimed that she had taken the video as a “memento”, court documents stated according to media reports.
What Happened :
Between March and April, while at employer’s home, she kept her phone camera about 1m to 2m away and recorded a video while intentionally changing the boy’s pants in the middle of the camera’s field of vision.
In a video posted by the maid, which lasted at least 18 seconds, showed the child’s bare buttocks & his private parts briefly.
The maid uploaded the video on TikTok with a caption :
“Condition for a domestic worker to be successful: Personal necessities borne by the employer, food and date borne by employer, no off day, no Shoppee (sic), whatever things I can request from employer and just believe it, go back to Indonesia with a bag full of money, not a bag full of dirty clothes!”
(Translated to English from Indonesian language)
How Did The Employer Found Out :
The court heard that Rike Kusnul Kotimah started working for her employer on Mar 11. Soon after this, she asked for a transfer, which her employer agreed to on Apr 14.
When the employer checked the maid’s photo gallery on her phone to ensure there were no pictures of her household and saw that she had taken a photo of a S$50 note placed in front of her husband’s pants.
The maid later admitted to taking the S$50 that was left in her employer’s husband’s pants, which she found while doing the laundry earlier in April. Her employer made a police report on Apr 14.
During the investigation, the police discovered that Rike Kusnul Kotimah had used her phone to record a video of the employer’s young son while she was changing him.
JUDGEMENT
DPP Alexandria Shamini Joseph, who asked for the sentence imposed, said that the maid had intentionally recorded a video of the victim being changed at home when he had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The punishment for intentionally recording a child under 14 doing a private act without his or her consent is up to two years’ jail and a fine or caning.The penalty for theft is up to seven years’ jail and a fine.
Another charge of distributing the voyeuristic recording was considered for sentencing. There is a gag order on the victim’s identity.
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