Man jailed for sending video of his girlfriend having sex with him to her cousin

SINGAPORE: After quarrelling with his girlfriend over cash and relationship points, a person despatched a video of them having sex to her cousin, wanting to drive his lover into talking to him.The 31-year-old man, who can't be named to shield the sufferer's identification, was sentenced to 12 weeks' jail on Thursday (Dec 9).He pleaded responsible to one cost of deliberately distributing an intimate recording, with a second cost considered.The court docket heard that the pair started relationship in 2018, however their relationship grew to become unstable in September this yr.During their relationship, the person had used his cellphone to file himself having sex with the sufferer. The sufferer, who was bare, knew that the video was being recorded and consented to it.However, she later instructed the offender to delete the recording. He mentioned that he did, however he didn't.At round Sep 20 this yr, the couple started quarrelling about cash and different relationship points. As a outcome of an argument, the sufferer blocked the offender on WhatsApp.Six days later, the person despatched the video of himself having sex with the sufferer to her cousin.He knew that the distribution of the video would humiliate his girlfriend, and did so to compel her to communicate to him, as she had blocked him on WhatsApp.He additionally threatened to flow into the video and make it viral if the sufferer didn't contact him.The sufferer lodged a police report the following day and mentioned an intimate video of her had been circulated with out her consent.Defence lawyer Sunil Sudheesan mentioned the video was despatched to the sufferer's cousin, and the probability of the relative forwarding or distributing it was extraordinarily low.He mentioned his consumer had wished to communicate to the sufferer, whom he claimed had moved on with a brand new boyfriend. He was indignant and really unhappy on the flip of occasions, mentioned the lawyer.District Judge Marvin Bay mentioned there was "an egregious breach of trust where the victim had consented to the filming of the video, while she was in a vulnerable state of nakedness because she and the accused were romantically involved at that point in time".Not solely did the offender fail to delete the video as requested, however he additionally lied that he had completed so and despatched the clip to the sufferer's cousin after they fell out, mentioned Judge Bay.While he accepted that the offender was indignant and that he had dedicated the crime "upon a misconceived intention to preserve his relationship", the decide mentioned what the offender did was "perverse"."It is deeply wrong and perverse to weaponise an intimate video taken in a moment of vulnerability, mobilising it as a means to keep a failing relationship alive," mentioned Judge Bay.For intentional distribution of an intimate recording, the person may have been jailed for up to 5 years, fined, caned, or given any mixture of these penalties.