by Theleaders | May 19, 2026 4:31 pm
SINGAPORE, May 19 — A 31-year-old Singaporean man has been sentenced to one year and nine months in jail and two lashes of the cane after he was caught with a collection of 79 sexually explicit videos involving 87 identifiable children.
Emerson Poh Jun Wei pleaded guilty on May 18 to one count of possessing child sexual abuse material. At the time of the offence, he was employed as an operations assistant, The Straits Times reported.
The materials, which included a video of a boy who appeared to be only two years old, were discovered during a police raid on his home on September 7, 2023. The 79 videos were found stored across his laptop, desktop computer, and mobile phone.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Zhou Yang told the court that Poh’s consumption of pornographic material began in 2013.
Around 2018, he started using the social media platform Tumblr to download videos and photos of boys aged 12 to 16.
When Tumblr began removing such content from its site, Poh went on a downloading spree to hoard as much material as he could find.
“Progressively, the accused came to prefer child abuse material involving young boys around 12 years old, and he became addicted to watching such videos,” Zhou said.
Poh initially stored the files on his Google Drive, but the account was suspended in 2023 after the illicit material was detected.
To maintain easy access, he then transferred some of the videos directly to his mobile phone gallery, which is where they were ultimately found by police.
Poh was arrested on the day of the raid and charged in court in 2025. He is currently out on S$25,000 (RM78,000) bail and is set to begin his sentence on June 15.
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