‘Peeping tom’ fined for watching woman breastfeeding

KUALA LUMPUR: A cook was fined RM3,500 in default five months in jail by the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday when he was caught peeping at a woman breastfeeding her child at a shopping centre.

Magistrate Mahyudin Mohmad Som sentenced Chow Chee Yeep, 32, after the accused pleaded guilty to the deliberate act of insulting the modesty of a 35-year-old woman by peeking at her while she was nursing her child.

He committed the act at the nursing room of The Gardens, Mid Valley here at 6.45 pm, on July 7, under Section 509 of the Penal Code which carries a fine or imprisonment of up to five years or both.

Deputy public prosecutor Noor Farah Adilah Noordin prosecuted while the accused was not represented.