{"id":34952,"date":"2026-03-09T21:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:46:38","slug":"over-5-months-jail-for-woman-who-vandalised-salvation-army-premises-in-upper-bukit-timah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34952","title":{"rendered":"Over 5 months\u2019 jail for woman who vandalised Salvation Army premises in Upper Bukit Timah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE &#8211; An Australian woman has been sentenced to five months and six weeks\u2019 jail for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/woman-arrested-after-graffiti-found-on-walls-and-vehicles-at-salvation-army-premises-in-bukit-timah?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">spray-painting offensive words<\/p>\n<p><\/a> at Praisehaven \u2013 The Salvation Army in Upper Bukit Timah Road on Christmas Day in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dianna Ong,<!-- --> <!-- -->43, pleaded guilty to a charge of vandalism on March 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She had written offensive words in red that The Salvation Army described as \u201csensitive in nature and concerned religion\u201d on walls and three vans parked at the organisation\u2019s compound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Court documents stated that she chose Christmas Day to commit the offence as it is a Christian holiday, and intended it to be an act of protest against The Salvation Army. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A person in charge of the morning service at Praisehaven discovered the graffiti and made a police report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ong was tracked down and arrested the same day after she posted photos of the graffiti on her Facebook account. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/woman-charged-with-vandalism-over-incident-at-the-salvation-army-in-upper-bukit-timah-road?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">charged in court<\/p>\n<p><\/a> on Dec 27, 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Deputy Public Prosecutor Brian Wong said her acts caused more than $3,000 in damage to The Salvation Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In court, Ong apologised for her acts and said that her mother suffers from anxiety and depression. She added that she hopes to visit her as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">District Judge Paul Chan<!-- --> said that the circumstances surrounding Ong\u2019s offences were not trivial as she had vandalised multiple surfaces and structures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He added that her actions were calculated to cause as much damage as possible, and she had used words that were highly offensive to The Salvation Army. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The judge said: \u201cAfter committing the offence, she further published the acts on social media, therefore increasing the impact of her offending acts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Those convicted of vandalism may be fined up to $2,000 and face a jail sentence of up to three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Offenders may also receive between three and eight strokes of the cane, though women are not liable for caning under the law. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/more-than-5-months-jail-for-vandal-who-spray-painted-walls-and-vans-at-salvation-army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; An Australian woman has been sentenced to five months and six weeks\u2019 jail for spray-painting offensive words at Praisehaven \u2013 The Salvation Army&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}