"The objection lies in the obscene nature of the materials being disseminated on the platform. "It is irrelevant that the platform caters to consenting parties," said Judge Wang. However, when this encroaches into public spaces and involves an "overt expression of moral perversion or corruption" as in the case of Chue and Nguyen, deterrence must feature in sentencing, she added. In sentencing, District Judge Janet Wang said: "The choice of one's lifestyle, conventional or otherwise, is a personal and private matter." Mr Loy said the couple have learnt their lesson and completely left their swinging lifestyle behind. The photos were not taken to be leaked to the public at large - "the point was to document their own personal journey of discovery", said the lawyer. Nguyen's lawyer Paul Loy said the couple had lied about the phone as they were concerned about "potential exposure from further leaks of what they say are their private and sentimental documents". He described the couple's swinging activities as a "hobby cum passion". Lawyer Tito Isaac said Chue was a first-time offender and a loving husband, devoted father and family man. They also repeatedly had Nguyen appear nude in public so that provocative photos and videos could be captured, said Mr Sukumaran. He said Chue went to the trouble of designing a business plan with subscription options to monetise his wife's nude media. The prosecutor Mr Sukumaran asked for a fine of S$11,000 for Chue and S$8,000 for Nguyen. It was eventually retrieved and surrendered to the police in June 2020.
The phone had actually been placed in a bag with a padlock, and passed to a friend for safekeeping. The couple lied because they were worried over the phone containing several pictures of themselves.īut at the same time, they did not want to delete the contents of the phone as the compromising photos of Nguyen held "sentimental value" for both of them, the court heard. He claimed he had lost it after visiting Great World City, and said he suspected that a person had picked up the phone and posted the video online. While giving a statement to a police officer, Chue lied about the whereabouts of his phone. They raided their home on suspicion of prostitution-related activities. The police began investigating the couple and arrested them on May 18, 2020. An attached video, which showed Nguyen at Great World City flashing her chest, had been disseminated to the public by unknown parties two days before.
On May 16, 2020, the police received a report about a woman exposing herself in public. To garner more followers and to become USC's "number one couple of the year", Chue set up a Twitter account around February 2020 and uploaded watermarked photos of his wife in varying stages of nudity.Ĭhue used the Twitter account, which was made public sometime before May 2020, to entice followers to subscribe and pay for more content of Nguyen, via a private Telegram chatroom.įrom this, he made US$7,805.73 (S$11,207) in a PayPal account and S$1,375.44 in a bank account. These included supermarkets in Great World City, IMM Jurong and Geylang a Toast Box outlet at VivoCity as well as the vicinity of the ArtScience Museum, Haji Lane and Mount Faber. She appeared nude in public on 18 occasions between January 2020 and May 2020, at multiple locations in Singapore. In order to maintain their popularity on the USC website, Chue began posting content of Nguyen in various stages of nudity, with her consent. These were "well-received" by the community and led to the couple gaining many followers, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Thiagesh Sukumaran. It is an online membership-based platform for swingers, where patrons post pictures and videos of their swinging experiences.Īround Jan 9, 2020, Chue and Nguyen took photos of a "sexual experience" with a third person at a hotel, and posted them on USC. The couple was first introduced to the community through a website called the Undertable Swinger's Community (USC) in December 2019. The court heard that the couple was part of a community of "swingers" between December 2019 and May 2020.Īccording to court documents, those who subscribe to a "swinging" lifestyle typically have more than one sexual partner, drawn from or outside of the community. Nguyen pleaded guilty to two charges of appearing nude in public and obstructing the course of justice. Another two charges were taken into consideration.
Jeffrey Chue Tze Jeong, 50, was fined S$14,000 while Nguyen Thi Anh Thy, 30, was fined S$9,000.Ĭhue pleaded guilty to three charges of conspiring to take photos of his nude wife in public, uploading obscene images to Twitter and obstructing justice by claiming he had lost his phone.
SINGAPORE: A "swinging" couple who took nude photos in public places on 18 occasions and offered paid subscriptions for nude content was fined by a court on Thursday (Oct 13).
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