Bomoh molests girl to 'remove ghost'

SHE believed him when he said that her daughter had been possessed.

And she was so convinced of his special healing powers that she allowed him to take the 13-year-old girl into the toilet to check her body and “remove the ghost”.

But the bomoh (Malay for medicine man), 55, molested the girl in the toilet of her home.

When the teen told her mother what had happened, the latter did not believe her. She even asked her elderly parents over to her flat to be cured.

It was the girl’s aunt who eventually took the girl to make a police report.

After a five-day trial, Al-Habib Sheih Haji Ismail Al Mahberoh, was jailed 10months for molesting the Secondary 2 student. The prosecution is appealing against his sentence.

In his grounds of decision released last week, District Judge Toh Yong Cheong noted that Al-Habib committed the offence by deception and trickery.

The girl, now 15, cannot be named under the law.
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WOMAN tells pregnant lady: 'This is not a reserved seat, why should I give it up?'

STOMPer samantha says this commuter had the cheek to tell a 'very pregnant lady' that as she was not sitting on a reserved seat, why should she give up her seat?


Said the STOMPer in her email contribution (Nov 12):

"I came across this auntie in the morning peak hour on the North-bound train travelling towards town today!

"When she was asked to give up her seat to a very pregnant lady, she still had the cheek to point and say, 'This is not a reserved seat, why should I!'


"Another commuter who was asleep during the journey and was actually sitting next to the aunite, gave up her seat for the pregnant lady without being asked to do so."
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Give way at another 36 bus bays

From tomorrow, another 36 bus bays will come under the Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme.

With this extension, there will be 146 bus bays islandwide under the scheme, said the Land Transport Authority.

The new bus bays are at Woodlands Avenue 2, 3, 4 and 7, Bedok North Avenue 1, Upper Changi Road, Simei Road, Kaki Bukit Avenue 1 and Toa Payoh Lorong 1.

The scheme is similar in concept to a zebra crossing, except that it is for buses.

It is an offence for motorists not to give way. They can be fined $130.

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Man convicted of murdering girlfriend

SINGAPORE: A man was convicted on Friday of murdering his girlfriend.

Twenty-four-year-old Pathip Selvan Sugumaran had killed 18-year-old Jeevitha Panippan on July 18 last year.

Part-time nursery teacher Jeevitha, who was looking forward to taking her O levels, was found dead with knife wounds on her neck and upper body.

She had been stabbed and found on a perimeter pavement behind an SP PowerGrid substation opposite Block 154, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5.

Pathip was convicted of murder by Justice Kan Ting Chiu, who said he had considered all evidence and submissions and subsequently sentenced to death.

His lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, said his client will be appealing against the sentence.

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Singapore's population would triple if...

A Gallup study shows that Singapore is the one country in "developed Asia" that highly-educated and young people would want to settle in, should they have a choice of any country to migrate to.

Singapore's overall population would triple if everyone who wanted to move here were allowed to. The total population here was 5.08 million as of end-June. It would also see its population of well-educated people quadruple and the number of young people increase six-fold.
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ICA launches iEnquiry

SINGAPORE : From November 15, users will be able to check on their applications online without having to call or email ICA, or visit the different websites.

Users can access iEnquiry with a SingPass, or foreign identification number (FIN) and date of birth.

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is launching an online enquiry system that allows users to check the application status for ICA services.

The system - called iEnquiry - will bring together existing ICA web application portals such as APPLES, VERIFI and iCheck to serve as a single point of enquiry for the various ICA-related services.

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27 more molest charges for Heartbeat Molester

A MAN dubbed the 'Heartbeat Molester' is said to have molested 28 underage girls since 1999.

Last week, Martin Tan Chye Guan, 47, faced one charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl at an HDB staircase landing in August.

Investigations now revealed he had committed 27 other offences.

All his victims were between eight and 12 years old.

Tan's modus operandi was to ask his victims to feel his heartbeat as a pretext or prelude to molesting them.

He would them take their hands to stroke his chest or his genitals.

On other occasions he would touch the private parts of his young victims.

Tan was offered bail of $50,000 but family members were unable to raise the money.

His case will be next heard on Dec 13.

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AG: S'pore crashes out

SINGAPORE crashed out of the Asian Games football competition after losing 1-4 to India in Guangzhou on Thursday night. It was their third and final game of the preliminary round.

The team needed a win to advance to the knock-out rounds as one of the four best third-placed teams in the six groups. Singapore had held defending champions Qatar to a goal-less stalemate on Sunday but lost 0-2 to Kuwait in their second game on Tuesday.

But the Indians proved too strong, hammering four goals past Singapore custodian Siddiq Durimi, who was standing in for the suspended Izwan Mahbud.

Qatar topped the group on seven points after beating Kuwait 2-0. The Kuwaitis are second on six while India advanced to the next stage in third place with three points. Singapore have only one point.

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