'I owe it to myself and all the other girls': One of Ken Lim's alleged victims comes forward after 11 years
SINGAPORE — It was in a record label office in 2012 that former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim allegedly asked a singer-songwriter if she was a virgin, and what would happen if he had sex with her right then.
Unaware that this was a crime, the woman kept silent for more than a decade.
But, after she was made aware that Lim had been charged over similar offences, she decided to come forward and report the matter to the police.
On May 6, the singer-songwriter took the stand in a trial against Lim.
Lim, who is facing six counts of insulting a woman's modesty and one count of molestation, is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one of his five alleged victims.
There is a gag order in place to protect the victims' identities.
In her opening statement on May 6, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong said the victim who took the stand that day had met Lim twice in his office in 2012 after being introduced by a mutual contact.
Lim was the executive director of record label Hype Records at that time.