Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005-11-25 09:00. ::
Her husband, a 64-year-old cobbler, is suspected of cheating a matchmaking agency on 24 Oct by allegedly using a fake cheque to get a young Vietnamese woman to be his bride.
He allegedly took the 19-year-old woman to a Geylang hotel, had sex with her and, five days later, returned her to the agency - Vietnam Brides International Matchmaker - before vanishing.
He then allegedly tried to dupe two other matchmaking agencies using the same trick before he was arrested on Tuesday morning. His 57-year-old cleaner wife told Shin Min Daily that she only found out what her husband allegedly did when the agency owner and police officers came looking for him at her home in late October. The couple has two children.
Madam Tan, who refused to give her full name, told the reporters in Teochew: 'I'm ashamed of him. He got into trouble but dragged the whole family into it.
She's so desperate that when she has to go out, such as to buy groceries, she lowers a big umbrella to hide her face so neighbours will hopefully not spot her.
She alleged that in April, he was jailed for two months for scalding a 33-year-old China woman in a hotel after a quarrel. They had allegedly gone there to have sex.
She said her husband, who used to work as a bus conductor, was an irresponsible man who didn't care about the family, leaving her to raise their two children single-handedly on her wages as a cleaner.
Madam Tan said: 'He's never done his part as a father. Yes, he doesn't ask us for money but neither does he contribute to the family expenses.
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