On Wednesday, 37-year-old Ooi Chuen Wei, who posed as a female gynaecologist on Facebook to get women to send him intimate images, was sentenced by a Singaporean court to three years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to “cheating by impersonation”.
In 2016, Ooi, created a Facebook account under the name “Dr Janice Lee Yan Hooi”. Over the following four years, Ooi used his fictional persona to trick 38 women into sending him a total of 919 videos and photos of their genitals and breasts.
According to the South China Morning Post, Ooi would send the victims a message via Facebook introducing himself as Dr Lee from Gleneagles Medical Centre in Singapore and invite them to join his medical plan.
In order to join the plan, the victims were asked to complete surveys and answer questions about their sex lives and genital development. In addition, Ooi sent the victims detailed instructions on how to massage their genitals and requested that they send videos and images of them doing so via email or the WeChat messaging service. The reason for this, he lied, was so that he could make accurate diagnoses of their reproductive health in order to suggest the correct treatment plan.
Ooi’s ruse was discovered in July last year when one victim became suspicious and lodged a police report after discovering that there was no Dr Lee working for the Gleneagles Medical Centre.
During the police investigation, which involved the seizure of Ooi’s electronic devices, he admitted to tricking the women and described how he had done it.
According to court documents obtained by CNN, Deputy public prosecutor R. Arvindren requested the sentence of three years and eight months on the grounds that Ooi had “executed a carefully thought out scheme to satisfy his sexual desires”.
“(He) abused the trust the public has for doctors and he has exploited social media to commit the crimes”, he added.
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