Singapore MP in jeopardy

Singapore MP in jeopardy

SINGAPORE: The political career of one of Singapore's few opposition members of parliament was in jeopardy on Monday after he admitted to taking digital photographs of his Indonesian maid as she posed topless.

Steve Chia, 34, secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party, also confessed to a fetish for posing nude in photos himself in comments to the media over the weekend after news about the shots of his maid broke.

The scandal hit the headlines on Saturday when local media published details of a police investigation instigated by Chia's pregnant wife, who lodged a report after finding the photos of his maid on their home computer.

Chia told reporters on Sunday he took photos of his maid posing topless in his house, but only after she consented and with "clothes covering the vital parts".

"After some persuasion, she decided to give it a go, to take some sexy photos, just to take a look, and with a promise that they would be deleted," Chia was quoted as saying in the Today newspaper on Monday. -- AFP