<p>Thangavelu Tamilselvam, an immigrant construction worker in Singapore, pleaded guilty on three charges of molestation and two others considered during his sentencing, 'The Straits Times' reported today.<br /><br />Tamilselvam had molested five women and girls, who wore shorts or skirts and aged between 10 and 30 years, over 19 days in May this year.<br />He would wear a cap covering his top half of the face and prowled on a bicycle spotting his victims in the Woodlands housing estate, closer to his dormitory on northern part of Singapore.<br /><br />He would attack his victims in apartment lifts, hugging and kissing them, Deputy Public Prosecutor Kumaresan Gohulabalan told the court yesterday.<br />Tamilselvam faced a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and caning for outraging modesty and causing wrongful restraint in a lift.<br /><br />The punishment for outraging the modesty is a jail term of up to two years or fine or caning or any combined sentence.<br /><br />Caning is a widely used form of legal corporal punishment in Singapore. <br /></p>
<p>Thangavelu Tamilselvam, an immigrant construction worker in Singapore, pleaded guilty on three charges of molestation and two others considered during his sentencing, 'The Straits Times' reported today.<br /><br />Tamilselvam had molested five women and girls, who wore shorts or skirts and aged between 10 and 30 years, over 19 days in May this year.<br />He would wear a cap covering his top half of the face and prowled on a bicycle spotting his victims in the Woodlands housing estate, closer to his dormitory on northern part of Singapore.<br /><br />He would attack his victims in apartment lifts, hugging and kissing them, Deputy Public Prosecutor Kumaresan Gohulabalan told the court yesterday.<br />Tamilselvam faced a maximum jail sentence of 10 years and caning for outraging modesty and causing wrongful restraint in a lift.<br /><br />The punishment for outraging the modesty is a jail term of up to two years or fine or caning or any combined sentence.<br /><br />Caning is a widely used form of legal corporal punishment in Singapore. <br /></p>