If you sniff the pit, they won't acquit

There are some countries (I'm looking at you, Japan) where they seem to put up with all kinds of weird and creepy sexual fetishes and the fetishists who indulge in them. It sounds like Singapore is not really one of those places:

A Singapore man with a penchant for sniffing women's armpits was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for molesting his victims, a local newspaper reported Friday.

The 36-year-old, who the Straits Times said was mentally unstable, had previous convictions for drug and sex-related offences.

He molested 23 women over the course of 15 months, smelling their armpits and touching them in lifts, staircase landings and their homes, the paper said. He was caught after a housewife reported him to the police.

The court meted out the jail term, normally reserved for hardcore criminals, saying the man was likely to commit crimes again, the paper reported.

Normally, I'd say that sounds unduly harsh, but given his previous sex-related offenses and the fact that he apparently (check out the second to last paragraph there) broke into some of these women's homes to do his thing, it sounds like the dude might be just a tad dangerous.