SINGAPORE — A 28-year-old woman was sentenced to six months jail today (Sept 6) by a district court for distributing obscene photographs which led to her victim being terminated from her job.

Siti Nurazlin Samat pleaded guilty last month to providing false information to a public servant, as well as to distributing the obscene photographs. The victim’s identity cannot be revealed but it is understood she was a co-curriculum programme executive at a secondary school.

Siti admitted that she had done so because she wanted to injure the victim’s reputation. The court heard that Siti’s fiance was previously in a relationship with the victim.

Siti was upset because she felt her fiance’s family preferred the victim to her and that they were constantly comparing them.

In February 2011, Siti then posed as a male police officer and contacted the victim via text message, pretending to be interested in her. They then got into an online relationship where Siti would communicate with the victim daily using a fake email address and Facebook account, as well as borrowed mobile phones.

During the course of the “relationship”, the victim then sent photographs of her family as well as 10 photographs of herself naked.

Siti then saved these photos with the intent to use them to injure the victim’s reputation. She later posed as the police officer’s girlfriend as a ploy to end the relationship.

In December 2011, Siti then sent a letter to the principal of the secondary school, pretending to be a concerned parent.

She enclosed four photographs of the naked victim and lied about finding them in her son’s maths textbook while cleaning his room and that he had received them from the victim.

She then demanded that the victim’s employment be terminated, and as a result, the victim was dismissed from her position.

In meting out the sentence, District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim said that Siti knew the gravity of what she had done, and noted that the psychological impact on the victim was long-lasting.

The court also heard that Siti wrote a letter of apology to the victim.

For providing false information to a public servant, Siti could have been jailed up to one year and fined, and for distributing the obscene photos, she could have been jailed up to three months and fined. CHANNEL NEWSASIA