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SINGAPORE – A serial scammer released from prison in October 2019 returned to his old ways this year, this time pretending to be nurses on calls to hospitals here.
He persuaded a pregnant patient to demonstrate how to massage the stomach in a video call and even asked the nurses to transfer the patients to different rooms and delivery rooms, acts that could affect the operations of hospitals, the court heard.
Kelvin Pang Lock Sheng, who does not suffer from mental illness, was sentenced Wednesday (December 2) to 14 months and seven weeks in jail after pleading guilty to six counts of communicating a false message and four unrelated counts of cheating.
Eighteen other charges for similar crimes were considered during the sentencing.
The 33-year-old, who had to avoid problems from October 29 last year to January 27 this year as part of a referral order for his early release from prison, will also have to spend six more days after the bars.
This was for violating the order on January 22 when he cheated on a woman for $ 28.
Pang has been in and out of jail since October 2015 for crimes including robbery and cheating.
Between January and April of this year, he made a series of calls to the wards of Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and National University Hospital (NUH).
On January 31, Pang, who worked part-time playing music for funeral service companies, called a pregnant patient at NUH.
“The defendant convinced the patient that he was a nurse and the patient showed the defendant how he massaged his stomach through a video call … The defendant even asked him to show him … (his private part) … but the victim declined, “Assistant District Attorney Norine Tan said.
Pang adopted a female voice on February 5 and pretended to be a delivery room nurse to speak to another NUH patient, a 29-year-old expectant mother who was due to deliver the next day.
Pang told the woman that he would “put her through the steps of childbirth.” The victim learned the truth after speaking with a royal nurse who entered her room.
The DPP said: “The victim, already facing the pressure of childbirth, was very concerned about how a stranger obtained her (mobile phone) number. The accused had unfairly subjected her to this stress during the already stressful period.
It was not said how he received his number.
On other occasions, Pang had called in nurses to transfer patients to the delivery room or other rooms.
“Such conduct has a serious risk of affecting the operations of a hospital, particularly the delivery room / gynecology that already has to deal with emergencies,” said DPP Tan.
Both hospitals alerted the police and Pang was arrested on April 11.
Regarding the crimes of cheating, the court heard that he had cheated on several women for more than $ 200 in total by having them recharge the mobile phone number of his prepaid card.
He did this by calling a store to gather information about its branches.
He would then call a branch and pose as a colleague of a staff member, telling his victim that he needed help reloading his prepaid card.
DPP Tan said that Pang would hang up when the men answered the calls because he felt the women were friendlier.
For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
And for every count of communicating a false message, an offender can be jailed for up to three years and fined up to $ 10,000.
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