SINGAPORE: A doctor previously from Sengkang General Hospital was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail on Monday (Dec 15) for filming a 31-year-old woman in the shower.
Although an Institute of Mental Health (IMH) report assessed Jonathan Soh Jingyao, 34, as suitable for a mandatory treatment order (MTO) to address his voyeurism disorder, the judge found that jail was more appropriate.
An MTO is a community-based sentence that directs an offender suffering from certain treatable psychiatric conditions to undergo treatment.
Soh had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism, with a second similar charge taken into consideration.
He was accompanied by his wife and friends in court.
Due to a gag order protecting the victim’s identity, her relationship with the accused was redacted from court papers, although the prosecution referred to how Soh “breached the relationship of trust” he had with the victim.
At about 6pm on Apr 11, 2024, Soh was in a residential unit with the victim.
When Soh heard the victim showering in the common toilet beside the kitchen, he went to the kitchen and held his phone near a window to record the victim showering.
The victim noticed the phone which pointed at her and shouted.
Soh left and the victim later returned to her bedroom. She did not know who the culprit was and checked the closed-circuit television footage to identify the person.
