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Woman fined for harassing Straits Times journalist

• Clivebenss

  13 Apr 11, 13:08

  By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 13 April 2011 1233 hrs

  SINGAPORE: A freelance interior designer was fined S$4,000 on Wednesday for sending insulting and threatening messages to a Straits Times journalist.
  
  34-year-old Amy Chua Kwan Ming harassed Joanne Lee eight times between August 2008 and September 2009.
  
  The pair met each other face-to-face only once sometime in 2003 or 2004 when Chua asked for Ms Lee's autograph at a taxi stand and the journalist obliged. But Ms Lee started receiving letters and emails from Chua a few years later, some of which were peppered with obscenities.
  
  The plump, bespectacled woman claimed that she was Ms Lee's husband and they supposedly had a child together. Chua also sent about three emails to her every day and had presents sent over to Ms Lee's work place.
  
  Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told the court that Chua declared her love to Ms Lee in some of the messages. And in several others, Chua accused 36-year-old Ms Lee of having supposed affairs with various individuals, said DPP Vaswani.
  
  Chua also left more than 80 messages in Ms Lee's office voice mail since August 2009 and had asked Ms Lee's colleagues to disclose the journalist's daily work schedule to her.
  
  The court heard that Chua has been diagnosed with schizophrenia but she was of sound mind when she committed the offence.
  
  She told District Judge Roy Neighbour that she is receiving outpatient treatment at the Institute of Mental Health for her condition.
  
  Chua, who pleaded guilty to four of eight charges last month, could have been fined up to S$5,000 for each charge.
  
  -CNA

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  13 Apr 11, 13:16

  ehhhh... wait... from the starting part...

  One of them was turning lesbian???

• Pitot

  13 Apr 11, 14:54

  from sound till unsound. classic

• troublemaker2005

  13 Apr 11, 20:38

  soome women should just stay at home and shit.

  its important to take good care of health after giving birth they say. coz if not woemn can get very unbalanced after birth.

• May-yuen

  14 Apr 11, 01:16

  This was such a strange article...
• Veggie Bao

  18 Apr 11, 11:10

  Nothing strange.....basically a stalker who may be having lesbian love......lol....