Two men Ong Ah Huat and Teo Sah Soon were sentenced to jail and fined in court yesterday 4 Apr for setting up a website for prostitution and living off the earnings collected from prostitutes.
In Singapore, prostitution itself is not illegal , but various prostitution-related activities are. This includes public solicitation and living off the earnings of a prostitute. Ong, 55, came up with the concept of a social escort business with sexual services in late He roped in Teo to help him create and maintain the website, called MadamQ, to advertise for the business. Teo would update the site with profile information and photographs of the women. Court documents stated that Ong recruited the women β aged between 23 and 33 β through people he knew, or met them through the MadamQ website.
He would call or meet them in person and tell them that sexual services would be required if the customers wanted it. Ong got 35 per cent while Teo took 5 per cent. According to court documents, one year-old Singaporean girl entertained about 35 customers. She would wait for the details of the assignments from Ong, before going to various hotels to meet clients.
Ong and Teo were discovered when their year-old Kyrgyzstani girl was arrested at Holiday Inn in Aug last year, based on a tip-off. Both pleaded guilty to several charges. Furthermore, he had to give up his freehold landed property for his ex-wife and children. The entire episode had left Teo financially drained, the lawyer added.
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