‘Sugar daddy agent’ jailed after duping women for sex
He gets 3½ years, $20,000 fine for lying to at least 11 women that he could hook them up with 'rich clients'
A man who pretended to be an agent for rich "sugar daddies" and duped at least 11 women into having sex with him was sentenced yesterday to 3½ years' jail and fined $20,000.
De Beers Wong Tian Jun, 39, pleaded guilty last month to 10 charges, including cheating and criminal intimidation. Another 26 charges were considered in sentencing.
District Judge John Ng described Wong as a multiple offender who had deceived women for his own sexual gratification.
"An elaborate and well-executed plan over 10 months makes such offences particularly deserving of punishment," the judge said.
In 2015, Wong looked through sex workers' advertisements online and realised he could not afford to engage their services.
The Singaporean then hatched a plan to create a post on online classifieds website Locanto, asking for paid escorts to provide sexual services to "sugar daddies" - rich older men who are willing to splurge on younger women in exchange for their company.
At least 11 women aged between 18 and 24 responded to his advertisement between April 2015 and January 2016.
Wong told them he had clients who could pay them between $8,000 and $20,000 a month for their services.
The truth was that he did not have any clients and lied so he could have sex with the women without needing to pay them.
NUDE PHOTOS
After obtaining nude photos of the women or filming his sexual acts with them, Wong threatened them with dissemination if they did not engage in sexual activity with him again.
One of the victims, a 24-year-old woman, met Wong at a Hotel 81 branch on Oct 18, 2015.
When she expressed a reluctance to send him nude photos of herself, he told her: "All my girls take skimpy pics so you will be on the losing end."
She then sent him two photos.
He lied that he needed to have sex with her so he could rate her performance to his clients. She agreed to meet him after he said a potential client had paid his last sugar babe $16,000.
The woman started having anxiety attacks after this incident. She was later diagnosed with adjustment disorder with anxiety.
She begged Wong to delete her photographs on Jan 30, 2016. The conman said he would do so only if she agreed to "provide sexual services to him".
When the woman told him she was doing him a "favour" by not going to the police, he replied: "Now I have to pass your photos to my friends; in case anything happens to me, they will use the photos as they wish."
Terrified, the woman made a police report on Feb 3, 2016.
Deputy Public Prosecutors Cheng Yuxi and Tan Pei Wei called for at least 21/2 years' jail for Wong's "carefully thought-out scheme".
Wong's lawyer Genesa Tan said he had been diagnosed with adjustment disorder that contributed to his offences and that he is remorseful.
Wong, who is out on bail, will begin serving his sentence in two weeks.
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