Some of the girls who applied for a job at his social escort agency were as young as 15 years old. Chew Tiong Wei also had sex with some of them because he wanted to "try" them out before hiring them. As with his other girls, Chew took 40 per cent of her takings as his cut. Yesterday, Chew, 38, who set up the now-defunct Prestige Talents Management, pleaded guilty in court to 28 charges, including living off the immoral earnings of prostitutes, having sex with a minor, having commercial sex with underage prostitutes, making obscene films and income tax offences.
Court papers said Chew, who has been married since , started his vice business sometime in mid when he published advertisements in newspapers almost daily to recruit female social escorts. Chew took photographs of successful applicants scantily clad or in the nude and posted their pictures and personal details on an online sex forum to market them. He continued running advertisements in newspapers but did not mention anything about providing sexual services.
The girls would be asked for their personal particulars such as their NRIC and age, relevant sexual experience, preferred age limit of their customers, sexual services they are willing to provide and their minimum price. When it came to recruiting females under 18, Chew would convince them to have sex with him first before hiring them.
He would tell them he needed to "try" them out and provide pointers so they could "get used to the whole feel". That was how he convinced a year-old girl to have sex with him in June before recruiting her to be a prostitute. He also met another year-old girl, who saw his advertisement and asked her year-old female friend along for the interview and photoshoot in a hotel room.
After Chew took pictures of them in their lingerie, he said he wanted to test their sexual services and offered to paid them. He told her it was standard procedure for him to "try out" her sexual services and she agreed a few days later to meet Chew in a hotel room. He told her she would need to talk to a customer first and kiss him if he did not make the first move. They then had sex with a condom, only for her to push him away at some point when she felt pain.
