SINGAPORE, July 11 — A Singapore man who claimed his wife left him hungry, broke and physically weakened lost his bid for a protection order after a judge found his story did not quite add up — and then gave him a lesson in using artificial intelligence responsibly.
The husband had accused his wife of emotional and psychological abuse, claiming she controlled his life for more than a decade and reduced him to a “pathetic and destitute state”.
But Magistrate Soh Kian Peng was not convinced, pointing to evidence that painted a different picture, including the husband’s own testimony that he could carry three 5kg bags of flour home over 1.2km, The Straits Times reported today.
“If he was indeed destitute, and left in such a state where he was so physically weak such that his bones had become brittle, and his teeth had rotted away, it was quite unlikely – even giving generous allowances for the resilience of the human body and the strength of the human spirit – that he would have been able to haul that quantity of flour, over that distance, all the way home,” Soh was quoted as saying in his judgment dated June 30.
The court also reviewed videos of the couple’s interactions and found the husband appeared far from helpless, with Soh noting that “the husband was clearly able to hold his ground with a clear air of defiance”.
The magistrate said the husband’s struggles appeared linked instead to his difficulty coping after losing his job in 2009.
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