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Hong Kong’s top children’s rights advocate criticises government’s slow progress on reforming anti-abuse laws
Priscilla Lui, of the Hong Kong Committee on Children’s Rights and the Commission on Children, says the city also needs to cut red tape for those who try to report child abuse
The city’s shortcomings in protecting children from abuse have been dragged into the spotlight by a recent trial over the shocking murder of a five-year-old girl in 2018
April 14, 2021
A handout photo. The court was shown drawings by the victim at school.
South China Morning Post
A Hong Kong couple have been found guilty of murdering their five-year-old daughter three years ago in one of the city’s most horrifying cases of child abuse.
The girl’s 56-year-old step-grandmother was also convicted of two out of four counts of child cruelty.
A High Court jury of three men and four women on Tuesday (April 13) returned the verdicts after 10 hours of deliberations, following a month of heartbreaking testimony from family members, teachers and doctors.
Murder and manslaughter are both punishable by life imprisonment, while the cruelty charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.