SINGAPORE - A former senior public servant in an education-related government body, who had earlier been sentenced to four weeks' jail for molesting a female subordinate in 2016, has had three remaining molestation charges linked to another woman withdrawn. In a statement to The Straits Times on Monday (Oct 18), the Attorney-General's Chambers said: "Having regard to the sentence imposed, and after assessing the facts and circumstances of the remaining charges in view of the conviction recorded, the prosecution applied for a discharge amounting to an acquittal for the remaining charges." District Judge Ng Cheng Thiam issued a discharge amounting to an acquittal following a pre-trial conference last Thursday. This means the 68-year-old Singaporean man cannot be charged again with the same offences. Details about the man, the government body and the position he held cannot be revealed due to a gag order to protect the women's identities. He initially faced nine molestation charges linked to two female subordinates who were 41 and 54 years old at the time. The man claimed trial to six counts of molestation involving the pair. The man, who has since retired, had molested the older woma...