Subject: Apropos : Elsewhere : Sex in Singapore Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:33:38 -0500 To: lpny_discussion From: Bob Armstrong http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=3DoddlyEnoughNews&st= oryID=3D4384447 Singapore Cuts Sentence in Oral Sex Case Wed February 18, 2004 09:20 AM ET SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore judge reduced the sentence of a= policeman charged with receiving oral sex after his case= provoked a storm of protest, but he told the court that such a= sex act did not conform to Asian values. Police coast guard sergeant Annis Abdullah's sentence was halved= to a year in jail after the 27-year-old received consensual oral= sex from a teenage girl in April. "In the Asian culture, certain offences are still not talked= about though in some cultures you can go sucking away, and some= important people had gotten away with it," 77-year-old Chief= Justice Yong Pung How was quoted by state media as telling the= court at Tuesday's sentencing. The man's case sparked a rare public outcry against a notorious= local law that says "whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse= against the order of nature with any man, woman or animals can= be fined and jailed up to 10 years, or even for life." Letters defending Abdullah filled newspapers after media reported= the girl's age as 16, above the legal age of consent. .... --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/