To them, sex was for men and women, end of story, and God knows there are no women in these pictures. It would literally never occur to a lot of these guys that their photos give off sexual heat. Most kids - especially poor kids, but everyone - had far less of a sense of physical privacy than we do. Tenement kids slept three and four to a bed. A soldier from a Kansas farm had spent his youth skinny-dipping in the local pond with his friends plenty of outhouses, and even some school bathroom stalls, had more than one seat city high-school kids showered in an open room with nozzles along the wall, sans curtains or dividers, daily after gym class. “Just grab-ass,” they’d say.Įven outside the service, men of that era probably saw each other naked more than we realize. As Bowers points out, practical jokes that many of us would now consider invasive - slipping a hand down someone’s pants to tweak his penis, say - were within the realm of just-boys-being-boys high jinks. If you served on the field of combat, you saw other men naked a lot more than you might today, even if you go to the gym after work. There’s no privacy in a foxhole showers were rare and often communal, and toilets were open-hole latrines. Moreover, we forget - and are reminded by an essay in the book by a World War II Marine named Scotty Bowers - about the physical closeness that these fighting men lived with. As for the candid nudity, there are too many of these pictures out there in the world for them to have been made on the sneak, and a World War II soldier who carried a camera (and quite a few did there’s a lot of downtime in a war zone, in between the scenes of mayhem) wouldn’t have been able to hide it easily.
Some (like the pyramid pose below) were certainly set up for the picture. Well, chances are they weren’t creep shots. The judge instructed that a copy of the man's psychiatric report be handed to the prison, so that he could receive appropriate care and treatment for his disorder while in jail.įor each count of sexual penetration of a minor under the age of 16, the man could have been jailed for up to 20 years and fined and caned.Bathing at a spring on Guadalcanal, 1943.
She backdated the sentence to Jan 15, 2020, when he was remanded. Mr Lim said the man had surrendered himself at a neighbourhood police centre in January last year, before he turned 21, and accepted responsibility for his actions.ĭistrict Judge Teoh Ai Lin said she noted the circumstances raised by Mr Lim, but agreed with the prosecution that deterrence needed to be the primary sentencing consideration because the offences involved four young boys, and there were many charges which had to be taken into consideration. He added that the man had been exempted from national service because of this. He said his client had a borderline range of intelligence, and was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anger management issues. The DPP said the many offences were committed over a span of 1½ years and were not isolated incidents.ĭefence lawyer Marshall Lim asked the court for a sentence of not more than 39 months. Two other men, who are believed to be also related to the man, were seen with reddened eyes as the court proceedings went on.ĭeputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Teh urged the court to jail the man for 45 months. He appeared via video in court on Monday, and was seen covering his face with his hand as details of his offences were read out in court.Ī woman believed to be related to him was also seen crying in the public gallery. It was not revealed in court how the man's offences had come to light.
The boys had agreed to the sex acts, but one of them had later cut off communication with the man. The court heard that the man became friends with the victims through other mutual friends and they shared common interests such as fishing, e-biking and cycling. Two of the victims were aged 12 at the time, and the third was 13 years old.Ī fourth victim was not involved in any sex acts with the man, but had received an obscene photograph from him. These included other charges of sexual penetration, sexual exploitation of a child and sending obscene images to a child.įrom mid-2018 to end-2019, the man, who was a part-time deliveryman, had performed sex acts with three victims at various locations more than 20 times, including staircase landings and a public toilet. The 21-year-old, who cannot be named as he was friends with the victims, pleaded guilty on Monday (June 28) to four charges of sexual penetration of a minor under the age of 16.Īnother 28 charges were taken into consideration.
A man with borderline intelligence was jailed for 42 months for performing sex acts on young boys.