Chew was arrested the following afternoon.ĭuring the trial, Chew claimed that he had touched the victim in an attempt to help him with a defective seatbelt and insisted that he had proof in the form of a report made to ComfortDelGro. The victim made a police report at Bukit Timah Neighbourhood Police Post that evening. The teacher then alerted the school’s discipline committee.ĭistrict Judge Ling noted the assistant discipline mistress’ testimony that the victim was “uncomfortable, fidgety and not forthcoming” when talking to him about the molestation, and he was “unlike his normal self” as well. He then told her about the incident in the taxi. The two boys went back to school, where the teacher-in-charge of their CCA noticed that the victim was not his usual self. The victim’s mother took a photograph of Chew’s licence plate that had been recorded when he entered the condominium, then went home to call ComfortDelGro to file a complaint. When they went back down to look for Chew, he had left. The boy’s mother saw what they were doing and asked why they were carrying a penknife, to which the boy replied: “Mummy, this one is for self-defence.” The victim ultimately did not go into the toilet with Chew because he was afraid, and both boys left him.īack in the boy’s home, they discussed what had happened and decided to retrieve a penknife from a cabinet, in case Chew was still around when they went back down. When the other boy followed them, Chew asked him to stay behind. The victim’s friend also testified to seeing the victim’s “shocked face” after Chew unbuckled the seatbelt.Īll three of them got out of the taxi at the condo, before the victim told the other boy that Chew had touched his “bottom area”.Ĭhew then asked the victim to direct him to a toilet on the condo grounds and asked him many times if he wanted to accompany him there. “He was perfectly able to unbuckle it on his own,” District Judge Ling noted in her grounds of decision. The victim testified that after reaching his condominium in Clementi, Chew had touched his crotch twice while helping him to unbuckle his seatbelt. Then, when Chew pinched his cheeks, the boy said he was uncomfortable with that since Chew was a stranger to him.
The victim, now 16, cannot be named due to a court order to protect his identity.Īt first, the teenager did not think much about Chew asking him personal questions throughout the journey. The other boy sat at the backseat of the taxi. He had asked his friend to follow him home on Jto change his clothes and bag before returning to school for his co-curricular activity (CCA).
The boy, then 13 years old in 2017 when the molestation took place, had testified that he agreed to Chew’s request to sit in the front passenger seat, because it did not really matter to him where he sat. SINGAPORE - A 58-year-old part-time ComfortDelGro taxi driver was convicted on Thursday (March 25) of molesting a teenage boy who was his passenger, after taking him and his friend home from school.Ĭhew Lye Beng had not been a credible witness during the trial, while the boy’s testimony was both consistent and corroborated by others, District Judge Carol Ling ruled. He then touched the victim’s crotch after they got to his condominium.Chew pinched the victim’s cheeks and asked personal questions throughout the journey.He asked one of the boys to sit in front with him, while the boy’s friend sat at the back.Chew Lye Beng was a part-time taxi driver with ComfortDelGro when he picked up two male students.But Peter ignores him, and with the help of a university student Jae-sik (RYU Jun-yeol) and a Gwangju taxi driver named HWANG (YOO Hai-jin), begins shooting with his news camera. Man-seob, alarmed by the danger in the air, pleads with Peter to go quickly back to Seoul. There they encounter students and ordinary citizens taking part in large-scale demonstrations against the government. Although stopped by police roadblocks at the edge of Gwangju, Man-seob is desperate to earn his taxi fare, and eventually manages to find a way into the city. Without stopping to ask the details, he picks up the German reporter Peter (Thomas Kretschmann) and sets off along the highway. If he drives a foreign passenger from Seoul down to Gwangju and back again before the curfew, he’ll be paid the unthinkable sum of 100,000 won – enough to cover several months of unpaid rent.
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