SINGAPORE: A man who sent explicit photos of his wife and her lover to a family chat group committed emotional or psychological abuse, a family court has found.
However, the court did not grant the wife a personal protection order (PPO) she sought, giving among its reasons that the man had reflected on his stressors and taken concrete steps to change his life.
In a judgment published on Tuesday (Oct 13), Magistrate Soh Kian Peng emphasised that the lack of a PPO does not mean that he is condoning the man’s actions.
He also said that the PPO regime is not meant to right wrongs between people or to punish wrongdoing, but to protect those who find themselves trapped in a cycle of abusive domestic relationships.
The parties involved were not named in the judgment, as is usual for a family court ruling.
THE CASE
The couple are in the midst of divorce proceedings. The woman had sought a PPO and a domestic exclusion order for the study room in the flat they share.
The man admitted to adding his wife to a chat group with her family members. He then removed her from the group and sent explicit photos of her and her lover to the other members.
He had obtained the photos from her phone.
The man explained that he wanted to make it clear he was not the one sabotaging their relationship, and that it was the woman who was cheating on him.
In another similar incident, the man created a chat group with his wife’s supervisor. He added her to the chat before removing her again.
The man claimed that he never sent any explicit photos to this chat, saying that he was very angry but managed to “master his emotions and take a step back”.
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