Teen gets 150 hours for sex with 12-year-old
SingTao · 3 SOURCESabout 4 hours ago4 MIN
Summary
An 18-year-old defendant was sentenced on Wednesday to 150 hours of community service after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 at a shopping mall in San Po Kong. Deputy District Judge Tsui Yee-wai, sitting at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts as a temporary District Court, said the offence was serious but accepted there were unusual features, including the couple’s three-year age gap and their relationship at the time.
Key Points
- The defendant, Tsui Kwong-ho (徐廣浩), now 18, admitted one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13 over an incident on 6 February 2024.
- The girl, then 12 and in Primary Six, met the defendant on the social media platform Kuaishou in January 2024, when he knew her age.
- After several meetings, the pair went into a cubicle in a men’s toilet at a San Po Kong shopping mall, where intercourse took place with a condom.
- The girl’s mother later discovered sexual messages, found her daughter absent from a school activity on 23 February 2024, followed her, and then took both to police.
- The judge cited reports saying the defendant had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, social difficulties and limited stress tolerance, and was unsuitable for a detention or training-style custodial sentence.
Why It Matters
The case shows how Hong Kong courts may weigh age proximity, relationship context, remorse and rehabilitation reports even in serious sexual offences involving children. It also underlines the legal risks around online contact between minors that can quickly move offline and lead to criminal liability.