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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
An older man offered to pay my student debt. I thought it would be just sex... After he died in my 40s, I learned the truth about our 'harmless' arrangement
I didn't go out looking for a sugar daddy. I wasn't scrolling sites or sliding into DMs. Honestly, I didn't even think people like me did things like that.
Malay Mail
02-06-2025
- General
- Malay Mail
Jail, caning for Singapore man who extorted girl, 16, after she withdrew from ‘sugar daddy' deal
SINGAPORE, June 2 — A man who extorted a 16-year-old girl by falsely claiming he was taking legal action against her after she backed out of a 'sugar daddy' arrangement was sentenced to jail and caning on Monday. Marc Justine Landrio Chandramohan, 27, was handed a jail term of two years, 11 months and 10 weeks, and three strokes of the cane, according to a report published in Channel News Asia today. He will begin serving his sentence on Friday after being granted a few days to settle his debts. The Singaporean had earlier pleaded guilty to seven charges, including communicating with a minor to obtain commercial sex, abetting the distribution of obscene images and videos, extortion, cheating, making obscene films, and abetting unauthorised access to a computer function. Another nine charges — mostly linked to making obscene films — were taken into consideration for sentencing by Principal District Judge Victor Yeo Khee Eng. Three victims were involved in the case, including the girl who was extorted. Two others were filmed by Chandramohan during sex acts. Their identities are protected by a gag order. Judge Yeo noted Chandramohan's 'premeditated and predatory behaviour', saying he preyed on a young and naive victim and continued to pressure her for sex and money even though she owed him 'absolutely nothing'. The victim's relationship with her family was affected, and she reported feeling that her body was 'dirty', becoming sensitive to physical touch and panicking when she saw someone who resembled Chandramohan. Yeo said deterrence was the predominant sentencing consideration, both for the accused and for would-be offenders. He acknowledged Chandramohan's remorse and readiness to face punishment. The court previously heard that Chandramohan began chatting with the victim on Instagram in July 2021, proposing to pay her S$900 (RM2,980) for sexual favours. She initially agreed and sent him four nude or semi-nude photos and a video of herself removing her school uniform at his instruction. Chandramohan transferred S$100 to her on July 24, 2021. The victim later regretted the arrangement, told him she wanted to back out, and blocked him on social media. He then began harassing her over the money, using new Instagram accounts to contact her and threatening legal action. Despite a friend repaying the S$100 on her behalf, Chandramohan continued demanding sexual favours. In early 2022, the girl gave in and performed a sex act. Chandramohan then pretended legal proceedings were still ongoing and demanded S$1,350 — allegedly half of his lawyer's fee. He also suggested resuming the original sexual arrangement. The victim later confided in friends, who warned her he was likely lying. She lodged a police report. In a separate offence in 2023, Chandramohan opened a Standard Chartered bank account and handed control of it to a friend in exchange for S$330. Over S$304,000 flowed through the account. He was fined S$330 over this offence. Extortion carries a sentence of two to seven years in jail and caning. Communicating with a minor to obtain sexual services carries a maximum jail term of two years, a fine, or both.
CNA
21-05-2025
- CNA
Man admits to extorting money from girl who backed out of 'sugar daddy' arrangement
SINGAPORE: A teenager who initially agreed to a "sugar daddy" arrangement with an older man soon regretted the agreement and sought to back out. She deleted her chat conversations with the man, Marc Justine Landrio Chandramohan, and blocked him on Telegram after telling him she did not want to be part of the arrangement. Instead of leaving her alone, Chandramohan, 27, extorted money from her and obtained a sexual act from her under the threat of legal action. On Wednesday (May 21), Chandramohan pleaded guilty to seven charges. These consist of communicating with another person for the purpose of obtaining commercial sex, abetting by distributing obscene images and videos, extortion, cheating, making obscene films, and abetting another person to perform a computer function without authority. Another nine charges, mostly related to making obscene films, will be taken into consideration when he is sentenced next month. Apart from the victim of the extortion, two other victims were filmed by Chandramohan during sex acts, according to court documents. All three cannot be named to protect their identities. The prosecution described Chandramohan as "a predator of young and naive victims". "His exploitation of the first victim is particularly egregious, as he mined her for both money and sexual gratification. He concocted a story about taking legal action against the first victim and tapped on her fear of being embroiled in legal troubles," said Deputy Public Prosecutors Adelle Tai and Melissa Heng. "He was relentless in his exploitation of the first victim and continuously badgered her for money or sexual favours even though the first victim owed him nothing." Chandramohan knew the victim through Instagram. She was 16 at the time of the offences. He began chatting with the victim via the app in July 2021 and they continued their conversation on messaging applications subsequently. That month, Chandramohan told the victim he had plenty of money and did not know what to spend on. He told her how he once "struck a deal with a girl" where he offered to pay her money in exchange for a sex act, according to court documents. He then asked the victim if she wanted a "sugar daddy" arrangement with him, and suggested paying her S$900 (US$698) in exchange for sexual favours. Wanting a source of income, the victim agreed, but outlined what acts she would be uncomfortable with. As part of the agreement, the victim sent Chandramohan four photos of herself in which she was in varying states of undress. She also sent a video of herself removing her school uniform, at Chandramohan's instruction. On Jul 24, 2021, Chandramohan sent the victim S$100, which the victim assumed was payment for the photos and video. However, in the early hours of the next morning, the victim thought about what she did and regretted agreeing to the arrangement. She texted Chandramohan that she did not want to continue with it and deleted the chat with him. She also blocked him on Telegram. Two weeks later, Chandramohan created a new Instagram account to message the victim and asked when she was going to return the S$100 he gave her. In response, the victim blocked him on Instagram and deleted the chat as she wanted nothing to do with him. At the start of 2022, Chandramohan again contacted the victim using a new Instagram account, stating: "I don't want to do this, I just have it in my heart to text you for the last time about returning my money'. When the victim asked what he wanted, Chandramohan demanded his money back. The victim said she would only have money when her pay came in, but Chandramohan threatened to take legal action against her. After a short exchange, Chandramohan told the victim he would "see (her) in court" if she did not pay him back by 9am that day. Afraid of being sued, the victim decided to meet Chandramohan at his house. On the way there, the victim sought help from her friend to transfer S$100 to Chandramohan, and took a screenshot of the transaction to show him. Even then, Chandramohan claimed he was upset not because of the money but because the victim had disappeared. Asked why she blocked him, the victim said she was ashamed at having sent compromising content of herself. He then told her to go back to the initial "sugar daddy" arrangement but she declined as she had a boyfriend. He insisted on a sexual favour and said he would not stop pursuing legal action against her. Believing this to be true, the victim eventually gave in and performed a sexual act. Chandramohan agreed to withdraw his purported lawsuit against her. As they were about to part ways, Chandramohan told her to expect his text, which would contain a document for her to sign. This was allegedly a document for him to discontinue proceedings against her. He also asked for her name and identity card number to draft the document. Chandramohan next contacted the victim on Apr 26, 2022 asking if she had blocked him again. The victim said she had not. He claimed he had sent her a document and since she had not signed on it, legal proceedings against her were still ongoing. He asked her for S$1,350 - allegedly half the sum of his legal fee - to pay his lawyer. The victim repeatedly told him she did not have the money but then asked to pay him in instalments from fear of legal action. Chandramohan said this would take too long and asked her to return to their former arrangement of sexual favours. She later transferred him S$500, but he asked for the remaining sum of money on the same day, and hinted that she would have to resort to sexual acts if she did not pay up. On Apr 28, 2022, Chandramohan texted the victim again to insist for the money. The victim consulted her friends, who told her that Chandramohan was likely lying, so the victim asked for proof of the lawsuit. She lodged a police report later that day. OTHER OFFENCES Separately, Chandramohan filmed videos of two women he dated as they were performing a sexual act. These videos were found in his mobile phone when the police arrested him for the offences against the first victim. In 2023, Chandramohan applied for a Standard Chartered bank account at the behest of a friend, who asked him if he wanted to make fast cash by relinquishing control of his bank account. He then provided his friend details relating to that bank account and received S$330 in exchange. Investigations revealed that S$304,817.76 flowed through this bank account. By the time it was frozen, only S11.88 was left. Some of the money that flowed through this bank account belonged to a woman who had been told to download an application on her phone. The woman had responded to an online advertisement offering cleaning services and had followed instructions to download the app. She was then redirected to a website and asked to key in her bank account password and ID. She failed to log in. After that, nearly S$5,000 was transferred from her bank account to the one registered under Chandramohan's name without her authorisation on Feb 28, 2023. Chandramohan was given an adjournment to settle his matters, including a traffic fine, before he is sentenced on Jun 2.
ABC News
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Sugar babies give rich, older men the 'full girlfriend experience' at a price. But it can get complicated
When Soraya was 21, she met an Australian man in his mid 40s on a sugar baby dating website. It was one of her earliest introductions to the world of being a sugar baby, where young women trade their attention and sexual favours for the financial sponsorship of a rich, older man, the sugar daddy. She was staying in Ghana at the time and he was in Cape Town for business. Soraya says he fell for her straight away and flew her to South Africa to stay in his private villa. Instead of a typical relationship, they struck up an arrangement where he gave her Christian Louboutin shoes, diamond bracelets, gold rings and a weekly allowance. "He was very rich. He didn't bat an eyelash making sure that I was always comfortable in any way possible," she says. Soraya is now 26 and has been a sugar baby since she was 19. In that time she's learned a thing or two about how the game is played. She gave this man the full "girlfriend experience", but for a price. "[It's like] being with a boyfriend. From where you're going to eat tonight, to jokes and to laughing," she says. "[But] I choose when we're gonna have sex. I choose when you give me money, I choose everything." Soraya lives in South Africa, a country with one of the most unequal wealth distributions in the world, and she was raised by a single dad who told her: "It's better to be poor in a rich neighbourhood, than rich in a poor neighbourhood." Soraya learnt from a young age about the power of money and isn't shy about bringing up the subject when she first meets her "daddies". " Usually I say, 'Okay, darling, we're having such amazing time, let's talk about my favourite topic: Money'," she says. "When it comes to money, that's when you have to be serious to make sure that no words are missed. In some ways, the world of sugar dating mirrors the regular world of dating and matchmaking, with lessons in clear boundary-setting and communication. Sugar babies are also hard workers, which is part of the reason Soraya can't see herself dating any time soon. "Why do I have to put myself through normal dating with emotions that I don't even like, like putting this much energy in and needing to deal with all of these men? I think I should be compensated for it." Srushti Upadhyay is a PhD candidate at the University of Buffalo in the US who has interviewed hundreds of sugar babies in order to understand their motivations. She has found that most sugar babies do not date men in their personal lives. "If they're going to be dating men, they want to be rewarded for it because men hold a lot of power in this patriarchal society everywhere they go. And so to them … putting in this time and energy into relationships with men is something that they don't want to do for free. It's just a lot of work." Soraya says she maintains her power by stroking their ego and making them the central character. "Men also want to be loved like a fairytale," she says. "They too have not felt passion since they were a teenage boy, and they've gotten used to not feeling butterflies in their stomach when they speak to a woman. "But when they can find a woman who makes them feel like a little boy again, where they can't wait till she texts them, that is what you want. That is where the money is. "And then he doesn't know why he's starting to fall in love with me but it happens. Every time." Ms Upadhyay first became curious about sugar dating in 2016, when she was a graduate student. She has since spoken to women ranging from 18-year-olds to 60-year-olds looking to supplement their income. "A lot of them actually have full-time jobs," she says. "[Some younger sugar babies] described how their sugar daddies helped them get internships, and taught them how to invest money. "[It was] essentially like a pseudo-mentorship." Sugar babies provide emotional, sexual and physical intimacy, Ms Upadhyay says, while sugar daddies are the ones who have resources and who want companionship. There are also sugar mommies, where the gender of the arrangement is flipped, but these transactional relationships are overwhelmingly between attractive young women and rich, older men. For sugar daddies, Ms Upadhyay says a lot of them are wealthy men who want certain things they can't get from their marriages. "They want to be able to have these sexual relationships with younger women where they themselves feel young, no strings attached. "These sugar daddies are looking for somebody who just wants to listen to what they have to say. So think about it as having a therapist that you're also attracted to." There can also be a darker side to sugar dating. "[Sugar babies] talked about different degrees of 'unsafeness' that they might have felt, whether it's emotional or physical. It's always something that they are mindful of," she says. Charlotte was working full-time in admin in Melbourne when she started an arrangement with an older doctor in 2023 — her first as a sugar baby. He was in his late 50s and married with kids. At 32, she was earning enough money to get by, but not enough to live the life to which she aspired. That's when she signed up to a sugar baby site. "[I thought], how do I make extra money? I have Asian heritage and I have been fetishised my whole adult life and it's such a red flag for me," she says. "Going into this, I actually was like, 'I'm gonna take that back a little bit and use that to my advantage'." After a couple of months of seeing each other, Charlotte and her sugar daddy started talking every day. They would hang out, go on dates to expensive restaurants, and often have sex. "He wasn't physically that attractive, but he was so lovely to me and so polite," she says. "And then it all came to a head when we went overseas." Three months into their arrangement, Charlotte was onboard for what she thought was going to be a fancy Thailand vacation. Her sugar daddy paid for Charlotte's flights and accommodation, telling his wife he was on a cycling trip. Charlotte packed her bikinis but not her wallet, expecting him to pay for everything. Beaches, great food, shopping: Charlotte could see it all ahead of her. "And then I reckon I kind of got the ick a little bit when I landed and he met me at the airport. I was like, 'Oh, you look really old. You look like you could be my grandfather.'" Charlotte put these thoughts aside, and for the first couple of days in Bangkok she had a good time. But then her sugar daddy started getting too much. "He was forcing his affection onto me, and wanting to hold my hand in public all the time. And so I would either walk ahead of him quicker, or I would just cross the road. "I was starting to really feel like I was being judged because … he looks old and I look a lot younger than my actual age. "I could see the looks on everyone's faces when we went somewhere. And so it was just adding more and more to this ick that I was getting." And then there was the straw that broke the camel's back: Charlotte's sugar daddy started getting stingy, refusing to buy her things in the Bangkok markets. "Even trying to ask for a hat was so difficult. And then I just was like, I'm done. I don't want to be here anymore," she says. The next day, Charlotte came up with an excuse as to why she needed to get home, but without her bank cards she couldn't leave the country easily. "Once he realised that I'd made my mind up … he made zero attempts to try and help me get home," she says. Eventually, another sugar daddy she'd been seeing wired her the funds to get on a plane back to Australia. But even after Charlotte's hasty exit, the older doctor wasn't ready to let go. "I had like 75 unread messages over a number of weeks," she says. "There was a moment where I did feel scared because he knew so much about my life. I was looking over my shoulder constantly. "And then I remembered that he's married with kids and I have a lot of evidence and that I could blow his life up, and that it would be in his best interest to leave me alone." Soraya has been in sugar relationships for seven years now and has learnt some things along the way. "I do have one rule. That I must always be able to afford travelling back on my own, if necessary." She also never goes home with a sugar daddy on the first date, and has an upper age limit of 60. "That's too much. It's giving retirement. Retirement means too much time and I don't want to spend too much time with them." Soraya actually ended up marrying the Australian sugar daddy she met when she was 21, although it didn't last long. "[Being married] actually felt a bit like a cage," she says. Ms Upadhyay, who has interviewed hundreds of sugar babies, says it is not uncommon for sugar daddies to fall in love with their sugar babies. "Many of them shared [that] their sugar daddies became fascinated with them, or were very interested in turning a sugar relationship into a romantic relationship. And to a lot of the sugar babies, that was the first sign that they want to not pay for the arrangement." Soraya and her sugar daddy got divorced after a couple of years, but she walked away with a trust fund, which means she only has to work when she wants to. "That's where my net worth skyrocketed into the many zeros," she says. She now devotes most of her time to investing and advising fellow sugar babies on TikTok. As for Charlotte, after leaving her sugar daddy behind in Thailand, she found a new (married, with kids) daddy in an arrangement that works much better for her. "He's really lovely and is so respectful and so kind, and [it's] the experience that I wish that I'd had. I think he's in better shape than I am. [The sex is] probably better than a lot of the sex that I've had with people that are my age by choice and for free. "I get money from him. It's a set fee. And then I go off on my way and then I'm like, 'See you next time'."
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Inside the dramatic downfall of 'sugar daddy' plastic surgeon who lost his career, reputation and marriage
A former leading plastic surgeon who used sugar daddy websites to contact and pay girls as young as 13 for sex has had 'a spectacular fall from grace'. Defence barrister Philip Strickland told Newcastle District Court how Richard Sackelariou, 70, had lost everything after his life changed dramatically in 2017 when he had major surgery and was required to wear a colostomy bag for five years. Mr Strickland said Sackelariou, who had practices in Sydney and Melbourne and was married with two children, started using pornography before visiting sugar daddy websites after his wife no longer wanted to have sex following the surgery. Sackelariou's initial preference on the sugar daddy sites was for women aged 18-24 but even when he knew his victims were under 18, he continued to have sex with them. He paid six girls aged between 13 to 15 he had mostly met through the sites to join him in hotel rooms in Sydney, Newcastle and Queensland, between September 2021 and October 2022. He pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including five counts of causing a child aged between 14 and 18 to do an act of prostitution, one count of using a carriage service to procure someone under the age of 16 for sexual activity and one count of causing a child aged 14 or over to make child abuse material. Sackelariou agreed to plead guilty to the ten charges after the Crown dropped 30 other charges, including eight counts of having sexual intercourse with a child aged between 10 and 14. Mr Strickland told a sentence hearing on Tuesday that Sackelariou had been well-respected in the community before his arrest. 'Family, friends, career, reputation, gone. It's a spectacular fall from grace for this man.' Sackelariou told the court he was ashamed. 'I'm appalled at that person... that I created such harm and damage,' he said. 'I interposed myself during their sexual development, corrupted their normal sexual development.' Sackelariou said statements read out in a closed court from two of his victims had been horrific for him to hear. He said his wife, who is suffering from liver cancer, had been very upset and angry with him after his arrest and had since divorced him. His two sons refused to talk to him. Questioned by prosecutor Kristy Mulley, Sackelariou admitted he never thought about how his crimes would affect his victims and their families. Ms Mulley said: 'Even when you find out these girls are under 18, you continued to pursue them.' Sackelariou replied: 'With these individuals, that is what happened. I pursued them after I learnt they weren't the age they stated they were.' Sackelariou would offer to pay the girls for naked photos before arranging to meet at various hotel rooms. He would always hand over the cash in a white envelope. He offered one 15-year-old girl from Sydney $1000 for sex but when she refused, he increased the offer to $3500 for 30 minutes and they met at the Chatswood Quest apartments. Sackelariou will be sentenced on Friday. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (for people aged five to 25) Sackeleriou will learn his fate when he is sentenced at Newcastle District Court on Friday
