SINGAPORE — A former actor and scriptwriter at the comedy channel Wah!Banana went on trial on Tuesday (May 16) for molesting, sexually assaulting and raping a woman he met on Tinder.
Singapore permanent resident Lev Panfilov, now 27, is accused of raping a woman, who was then 30, in his bedroom after meeting her at a restaurant to discuss her script.
The pair chatted on Tinder and WhatsApp before arranging to meet. They met for the first time on Jan 12, 2021 at Wine Connection at Robertson Quay. They watched YouTube videos of comedians, discussed comedic principles and worked on the woman's script in his bedroom. This was despite the woman's"repeated entreaties for him to stop" and despite knowing that she did not consent to the sexual acts, the prosecution said.
She struggled to decide whether or not to make a police report and did so only after her mother saw her crying in her room in the early hours of Jan 18, 2021.
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