SINGAPORE, Dec. 20 -- A 36 year old Vietnamese woman was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail yesterday after admitting to bigamy, which is a criminal offence in Singapore.

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy also misled the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority by declaring she had no children, a charge that was taken into account during sentencing, according to a report by CNA.

She married a 54 year old Singaporean man in 2008 when she was 19, and later returned to Vietnam around 2012 for medical treatment.

While in Vietnam, she began a relationship with a man three years older than her and registered a marriage with him on July 28, 2015, despite knowing she was still legally married in Singapore.

Nguyen gave birth to a child with her second husband an...