> High school employee arrested for paying girl for sex

11th November Police on Tuesday arrested a manager at a high school in Kawasaki’s Asao Ward on charges of violating the child prostitution and pornography laws after he allegedly paid a 17-year-old student for sexual services.

Police said 52-year-old Minoru Komura was arrested on suspicion of paying 60,000 yen to a girl he had met through a prostitution club and receiving sexual services from her at his apartment in Yokohama on June 6. He reportedly met the girl several times, paying her 60,000-100,000 yen each time.

The Board of Education released a statement, saying, “This is a deplorable act for someone who works in school administration. We will deal with the incident with the utmost severity.”

> London commuters at West Ham station baffled by sex sounds over platform loudspeakers

06 Nov 2009 Commuters at West Ham station were shocked on Thursday night when, instead of the usual messages about delays, the sounds of a couple having sexual intercourse was broadcast over the tannoy

Passengers at West Ham station in east London heard a couple’s lovemaking antics being relayed over platform loudspeakers during the evening rush hour on Thursday.

“The noises heard by passengers were not from within our station. We believe they were a result of some sort of interference with our public address system,” a spokesman for Transport for London said on Friday. “It certainly wasn’t coming from our staff.”

He said the station’s public address system worked on radio waves and somebody must have been broadcasting on the same wavelength. He said staff had turned off the loudspeakers as soon as they realised what was going on.

But passengers had different interpretations.

“It was definitely a couple doing it there and then,” Laura O’Connor told the London Evening Standard newspaper. “He was grunting loudly and she sounded like she was having a great time. The driver must have heard it, too, as the doors stayed open longer than usual.”

> ‘Teksi sapu / Pirated Taxi’ rape suspect arrested

Nov 17, 2009 A MAN who offered ‘teksi sapu’ (pirated taxi) services to Indonesian women in Butterworth would instead take them to a secluded place and ‘sapu’ them.

So far, four women have been his victims. They were raped and robbed of their valuables.

A fifth woman escaped his wrath as she was menstruating.

Police arrested a suspect at Bandar Sunway in Seberang Jaya on Monday following a tip-off.

Investigations revealed that the suspect had a local fiance and was supposed to get married in two weeks.

Police recovered a cellular phone and several pawnshop receipts from the suspect, Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Dr Mohd Shah Hussin Shah said.

He told a press conference that the suspect hails from Bagan Lallang and was a charmer with woman.

Police are now investigating to determine if he was involved in similar cases in other districts.

The suspect has been remanded for four days.

> Officer wanted sexual favours

Nov 17, 2009 A NATIONAL Environment support officer persistently wanted to meet the mother of an underaged smoker in private and even texted her for sex, a district court heard.

The complainant, a woman in her 40s, reported Koh Hui Chong to the authority and a trap was laid when he turned up at her flat on May 6 last year.

The 43-year-old admitted to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau officers he had contacted the woman with the intention of having sex with her. He even brought along three condoms.

He had hoped that if the complainant had sex with him, he would then not take any form of action against her teenage son for smoking and littering.

The court heard that Koh had caught the woman’s 15-year-old son and another boy smoking in a prohibited area at a playground in Serangoon Central earlier on April 28. He obtained the boy’s details from his EZ-Link card and told him he would be booked for underaged smoking and other offences.

Koh, who pleaded guilty to trying to get sexual favours from the boy’s mother, is expected to be sentenced on Dec 1. He faces a fine of up to $100,000 and/or a jail term of up to five years.

> Two men charged with attempting to get sexual favours for turning a blind eye on underaged smoking offenders

17 November 2009 Two men have been charged, separately, with attempting to obtain sexual favours in return for turning a blind eye on smoking offenders.

One of them is 32-year-old Mohamed Rafi Abdul Alim who was employed by Certis-CISCO Security and attached to the National Environment Agency (NEA) as an enforcement officer.

Along with three other officers, he approached a girl whom he saw smoking with her friends at the basement carpark of Queensway Shopping Centre in March this year.

The girl and her friends were in school uniforms. The officers then took down the students’ particulars and gave them a verbal warning.

However, shortly after this, Mohamed Rafi allegedly sent the girl a text message asking for sexual services. It is believed that he promised not to refer her to the relevant authorities should she give in to his request.

42-year-old Koh Hui Chong, a former NEA officer, faced a similar charge. He noticed a boy in his school uniform smoking at a playground in late April last year.

Koh approached the student and informed him that he will be booked for under-aged smoking. He also asked the boy for his parents’ contact details so that he could speak to them about the matter.

However, the student gave him false information about his father. In response to this, it is believed that Koh approached the boy’s school to obtain the details even though he was not authorised to do so.

Koh then allegedly contacted the boy’s mother in early May last year, asking for sexual services in return for not taking action against her son.

If convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, both men could each be jailed up to five years and fined a maximum of S$100,000.

> Searchers find body of missing 5-yr-old girl offered for sex by mother

17th November 09 SANFORD, NC —

For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl’s mother offered her for sex.

The investigation into the disappearance of Shaniya Davis yielded the arrest of her mother and two other men, though one man was later released. Searchers found Shaniya dumped into the woods 30 miles from her hometown of Fayetteville. Hundreds of volunteers hoping to find her alive left the site of the search dejected, unable to bring Shaniya home to an emotional father, her 7-year-old brother and the dolls she loved to play with.

“I still feel kind of sick to my stomach,” said Angela Jackson, 27, from nearby Sanford, who has a two-month-old daughter but searched for consecutive days.

Particularly disturbing were the accusations lodged against Shaniya’s mother, 25-year-old Antoinette Davis. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution.

Davis was calm and quiet during a court appearance. She provided one-word answers to the judge’s questions. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.

Her sister, Brenda Davis, 20, said she does not believe the charges.

“I don’t believe she could hurt her children,” said Brenda Davis, who spoke with her sister at the jail Sunday. Davis’ aunt, Yvonne Mitchell, said the mother had two jobs and would never harm the child.

Authorities also charged Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, with kidnapping after they said surveillance footage from a Sanford hotel showed him carrying Shaniya. Authorities said McNeill admitted taking the girl, though his attorney said he will plead not guilty.

Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance declined to talk about additional charges. She also wouldn’t comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya’s body, except to say that state investigators found it about 100 feet off the road.

“Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive,” Chance said. “You have a lot of people in shock right now.”

Davis reported Shaniya missing from a mobile home park Tuesday. Authorities first arrested Clarence Coe, but charges against him were dropped a day later when investigators tracked down McNeill after receiving a tip from a hotel employee.

Additional information led investigators to a search site near Sanford on Sunday. They continued searching Monday, scouring miles of landscape, roads, ravines and fields on four-wheelers and with helicopters.

“We were hoping that someone could carry her home,” said Syd Severe, 42, who came from Raleigh to help with the search. “It’s just sick.”

A cluster of emergency vehicles and law enforcement gathered where Shaniya’s body was found. Authorities blocked access to the road, a rural area popular with hunters that is less than a mile from a lakeside community.

On Monday night, dozens of people attended a vigil at a Baptist church about two miles from where the body was found.

“We have kids and it just hit so close to home. It’s unbelievable how somebody can just do something that horrible to something so precious,” said organizer Crystal Godfrey, who lives a few miles from where the body was found.

Shaniya’s father, Bradley Lockhart, said he raised his daughter for several years but last month decided to let her stay with her mother. He had pleaded for her safe return.

Lockhart told The Associated Press on Saturday that he and Davis never argued about him raising Shaniya, and Cumberland County courts had no record of a custody dispute. He described his relationship with Davis as a “one-night stand” and said he did not know McNeill.

Davis struggled financially over the years, but she recently got a job and her own place, so Lockhart said he decided to give her a chance with their daughter.

“I should’ve never let her go over there,” he said Saturday night. A friend at Lockhart’s home Monday afternoon said Lockhart did not want to speak with reporters.

> Flasher caught red-handed by female police officer

06th November FUKUSHIMA — Police on Thursday arrested a 68-year-old man after he stood on the road and flashed a female plainclothes police officer who was riding in an unmarked patrol car in Nihonmatsu city, Fukushima Prefecture.

According to police, there had been reports of a man walking along in the same area during morning rush hour with his trousers unbuttoned flashing commuters since May. Because many of the reports came from young women driving past the area, police placed a policewoman in her 20s on patrol to catch the man.

The suspect, identified as Tatsuo Watanabe, flashed the police officer as she drove by around 9:15 a.m.

> Snatch thieves attempted to molest their victim

November 6, 2009 JOHOR BARU: Police detained a snatch thief who had also attempted to molest a woman.

The man, in his 20s, was an accomplice on a motorcycle and the duo pushed the victim off her motorcycle near Lima Kedai in Gelang Patah at about 5.45am on Sunday.

They then snatched the woman’s gold necklace, a mobile phone and RM52.

The duo also tried to remove her clothing but she managed to escape and seek help at a nearby toll plaza.

Police detained one of the suspects after raiding a house in Gelang Patah the next day.

Johor deputy police chief Sen Asst Comm I Datuk Jalaluddin Ab Rahman said police were looking for the other man.

“We are looking for one S. Sathis Kumar to assist in investigations. His last known address is in Taman Kota Masai in Pasir Gudang,” he told reporters.

He said the detained suspect had been remanded until Monday.

> Rapist dad traded daughter for whisky / SG$4

A 33-year old man in Mumbai, India, injected sedatives into his eight-year-old daughter before raping her or sending her out to other men in exchange for cash or whisky.

The shocking revelation came to light after police investigated a rape report lodged by the girl’s grandfather.

“The man usually traded his daughter for a bottle of whisky or Rs 100 (RM10),” it quoted senior police official Purushottam Gawande as saying.

According to the Mumbai Mirror, the girl is currently being rehabilitated at a children’s home and counselled by psychiatrists.

The type of drugs that he used on the girl have not been ascertained yet.

Police arrested Chhatis Das together with his drinking buddies – tailor Shabbir Sayed and Ashok Iyer, a watchman for allegedly raping her repeatedly.

The trio were charged under Sections 376 (Rape) and Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, 1956 on Wednesday.

Police have asked for the case be fast-tracked and have called for the rapist father be given the death sentence.

Earlier, Purushottam said although the girl underwent immense suffering, she did not confide in anyone. The girl called her grandfather in June and but only told him that her father had beaten her.

She finally related her ordeal to her grandmother and a police report was lodged on Tuesday.

The man had apparently gone to Cambodia to work as a radio mechanic in 2000 and married a Cambodian woman with whom he had the daughter.

Three years later, however, he divorced his wife and brought his daughter back to India and made her beg on the streets.

Relatives got him married to a local woman but she left within two months later after he tried to force her into prostitution.

> HK man, 75, jailed for molest

Nov 12, 2009 A MAN from Hongkong who molested an intellectually challenged woman was jailed for 10 weeks on Thursday.

Ip Ming Wah, 75, was in Singapore with his wife to visit his daughter and her children at a condominium in Siglap Road when he committed the offence.

He admitted squeezing the breasts of the 32-year-old victim at the void deck of a block on April 15.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo said a Filipino domestic maid was looking out of the window that day when she noticed Ip sitting on a bench infront of her block.

She next saw the victim walk past and Ip following her to the void deck of a neighbouring block. Curious, she went downstairs to have a look. She then saw Ip molesting the victim and informed her employer.

Ip could have been jailed for up to two years and fined for outrage of modesty.