Facebook note accusing an NTU student of sexual harassment went viral. (Yahoo! file photo)
A female Nanyang Technological University student's note this week alleging that a male student has sexually harassed her peers has gone viral online.
In a Facebook note posted on Tuesday at 6 p.m. and later taken down, the female, who studies at NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI), warned that the second-year male student has been sexually harassing students for a year and did not seem to be stopping. She requested readers to spread the word about him.
After three hours, the note had 43 shares and some viewers had circulated it via email.
When contacted, a female student told Yahoo! Singapore that she knows one of the male student's alleged victims and that this friend has filed a police report against him.
In the note, the student claimed that in December alone, the student approached five girls, including her, online and chatted with them on Facebook. Conversations with him went on for more than half an hour before he revealed that he needed videos showing them exposed and in compromising positions, she wrote.
The male student explained the need for the videos by spinning a story about how he could lose his internship at a local company for making a video of a female friend wherein she accidentally exposed herself. The video to be made would replace the original. When the girls agreed, the male student then changed his tune and insisted that the respective video of them has to be suggestive, the female student further recounted.
Yahoo! Singapore sought the side of the male student, who had been identified in the post, but could not reach him.
It seemed that the faculty of WKWSCI has been made aware of the note containing the allegations. A friend of the female student confirmed to Yahoo! Singapore that she had seen the note before it had been taken down and even commented on it.
The female student herself also explained that she had taken down the note as the manner she chose to spread the information had been frowned upon.
Yahoo! Singapore also understands that leaders of the WKWSCI student club have asked undergraduates not to speak to the media to spare the school from negative attention.
An NTU spokesperson responded to this website's queries saying that the case has been reported to the police and the school is currently assisting the police with their investigations.
The school further clarified that it "does not condone harassment in any form" and has "reminded all students about the importance of safe and responsible behaviour, both online and offline".
*back into the abyss of death*
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