SINGAPORE, Sept 10 — A Singapore family court has granted a man a personal protection order against his wife after finding that her messages and AI-generated fake images and videos depicting him having sex with his sister amounted to family violence.

CNA reported that Magistrate Soh Kian Peng found the man had suffered emotional or psychological abuse after his wife repeatedly accused him of having a sexual relationship with his sister, with the couple’s strained relationship also involving the woman’s acrimonious ties with her sister-in-law.

The man told the court that the dispute began after he agreed to contribute S$100,000 (US$79,120) towards his father’s medical expenses and informed his wife that he had transferred about S$65,000 to his sister.

The wife responded with messages that Soh described as “hideously offensive and vile”, while the husband was evidently “tormented and distressed” during the trial.

The court heard that the husband submitted 90 pages of screenshots showing messages from his wife as well as explicit AI-generated images and videos of him and his sister.

The wife did not deny sending the material and said she had used a free application to create the obscene images and videos.

Soh said it was “abundantly clear” that the messages and images had inflicted emotional or psychological abuse on the man, who had lost weight “precipitously”.

The magistrate found that the husband had established both grounds required for a protection order in a family setting, namely that his wife had committed family violence against him and that an order was necessary for his protection or personal safety.

Soh also found a high risk that the wife would continue the abuse, noting that she had stopped sending such messages only after the husband applied for the order.

The magistrate said the dispute involving the sister-in-law remained unresolved and that it was not realistic to expect the husband to cut off all contact with his sister to avoid conflict with his wife.

He added that while the wife might have had her own grievances and frustrations with her husband, she did not have a healthy way of expressing those emotions.

Besides granting the protection order, Soh directed the couple to attend counselling and ordered a preliminary assessment report on the wife, who had been admitted to the Institute of Mental Health twice, with a view to possible mandatory treatment for a psychiatric condition.