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SINGAPORE: A woman who was allegedly sexually abused by a Singapore Management University (SMU) student said she was asleep in a classroom when she woke up to see him on top of her.
The 24-year-old man was allegedly kneeling over her and ejaculated on her, the 22-year-old woman said on the stand Tuesday (September 8).
There was semen on his face, hair and neck, which was later identified as that of Lee Yan Ru charged by a DNA analysis laboratory.
“I felt ashamed,” said the woman, who was continuing her testimony on the second day of the trial. “My face was hot. Nothing like this had happened to me (before). I just remember that my face was very hot. I felt embarrassed and a little angry.”
She said she was angry “for being disrespected and degraded in such a way.”
“I mean, frankly, sorry for my language, I felt like a whore and a whore,” she said.
She said that she disagreed with Lee’s act and had not invited him to kneel next to her.
Lee is contesting a charge of using criminal force about her rubbing her private parts on her chest in a classroom at SMU in the early hours of January 8 of last year.
He met the woman on Instagram and began chatting with her online before meeting her in person for a study session, according to her earlier testimony.
The alleged crime took place in their second study session in an SMU classroom from 12.30 to 6.30 hours approximately, during which they did homework and watched a movie.
At approximately 6:10 a.m., they lay down to sleep in the classroom, with the woman lying on her back with her jacket covering her face and Lee lying on chairs.
She said she woke up with a weight on her and saw Lee on top of her. She told him to get off, but he allegedly told her to wait and then ejaculated on her.
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After this, Lee took a tissue out of her bag and wiped it with it, she said.
She told him that she would hear from her lawyers
She said she was “in a state of shock” and didn’t know what to do, and that she “didn’t dare say anything” to Lee.
As he packed up to leave, he saw Lee’s full name and address on a file and recited them out loud before telling him that “he will hear from my attorneys.”
When asked why she did this, the woman said, “To let you know that you messed with the wrong person and to let you know that I will do something about it.”
Lee apologized and asked her to allow him to make it up, and also invited her to punch her because he knew she practiced martial arts, the woman testified.
“I guess he said that as a way to get back at him to get even, as if that was enough,” he added.
She said she went downstairs while Lee begged her not to tell anyone, and went to see a security guard who was “very surprised” to see her.
“He asked me, girl, what are you doing here? Are you a student at SMU? That’s when I realized I wasn’t supposed to be there,” she said.
She told the guard what happened and asked him where the nearest police station was. The guard told Lee to stay outside the school while the woman was inside.
“The whole time we were separated by the porch, he kept yelling at the school, saying ‘please don’t call the police,’ but I went ahead and called the police,” the woman said.
THE EFFECTS OF THE ALLEGED INCIDENT
When asked by the prosecutor what effect the incident had on her, the woman said it had affected her relationship with her boyfriend.
She talked about a time when her boyfriend “pulled my hand, tried to get closer to him … I quickly pulled my hand away and pushed him like a reflex.”
She said she didn’t realize until her boyfriend looked at her in amazement that she was “projecting what had happened in our relationship.”
She also said she couldn’t sleep for a few days, had trouble concentrating at school, and takes Xanax for anxiety.
She said a psychologist diagnosed her with acute stress disorder, which she says is “shorter than post-traumatic stress disorder.” Socially, she said she feels “a little more cynical of people’s intentions.”
The defense objected and asked if the prosecutor intended to call the psychologist and other people the woman named as witnesses, or would he just take her word for it.
The prosecutor replied that it was “a premature request.”
The trial is scheduled to continue in the afternoon, and the defense will begin questioning the woman. Lee is represented by Rajah & Tann attorneys Thong Chee Kun, Josephine Chee and Jonathan Oon.
If convicted of sexually abusing the woman, he could be imprisoned for up to two years, fined, punished or any combination of these penalties.
CNA has contacted SMU for more information.
