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SINGAPORE: Annie cursorily skimmed through a letter her former husband sent from prison, barely registering his declarations of love and regret.
Annie’s former husband – referred to as “J” in media reports – recruited the most accomplices. He drugged her and found five men to rape her, one of them on their wedding anniversary. Annie wanted her story told and was composed as she recounted her life’s darkest chapter to ST – first in 2024 at a relative’s home, and again in May 2025, this time on camera at ST’s newsroom studio.
“I really feel hatred. I really hate him for making me go through this, but there is nothing I can do about it,” she said bitterly, wiping away tears. “I just tell myself that I have to go on.”Annie’s nightmare began in 2008, when she met J at a karaoke pub. They were both then in their 20s. He was jovial, humorous and charmed her with sweet platitudes.
But the same thing happened when she was eight months’ pregnant with their second child. She had marched into a hotel, where J had said he was having drinks with a client at its lounge, only to find there was no such lounge and he was nowhere to be found.“I didn’t have feelings for him. It was just someone I could vent my frustration to,” she said of the man, O, who contacted her on Skype.One day, out of the blue, O asked her if she would agree to a threesome with her husband.
Another time, when they were in bed, she discovered he had called another person to let the other party listen in on their intimate activity. Annie cut in: “It is not that I let the fire burn bigger. I just felt hopeful... I wanted my children to have both parents around, a happy family.” Scrolling further, Annie was horrified to find obscene photos of herself, also blindfolded and unconscious. In the accompanying messages, her husband declared that she belonged to the other man.“I actually felt very blank. I could not imagine that he had done something like that to me,” she said.
Letting out a chuckle, Annie let on that her sister had the presence of mind to video the exchange as evidence. She eventually decided to file a police report, driven by the fear that her children might end up being J’s victims if he was not arrested.On Jan 2, 2020, she walked into a police station with her sister. J and K were arrested the next day.
It turned out he was feeding her Dormicum pills – a prescription-only sedative – bought from a peddler in Geylang. J even tested the drug on himself. It took over a year for her to tell them what happened. Upon hearing the truth, they burst into tears and hugged her. The eldest said of their father: “He can stay inside prison forever. I don’t care.”“I hated myself for being so blinded by love, by him, and I also hated myself for being so forgiving,” she said. “I felt very dirty. I felt very used. I just felt that there was no meaning for me to exist, actually.
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