Hong Kong has expanded the scope of an opt-in scheme that screens organisations for sex offenders to include volunteers, in a major step that will give greater protection to children and mentally incapacitated individuals. The expansion of the Sexual Conviction Record Check (SCRC) scheme took effect on Monday and was the second of the government’s…
A Hong Kong lawyer has been jailed for three years and seven months for having sex twice with a 12-year-old girl and taking more than 200 photographs and videos of the illegal acts. The District Court on Thursday rejected the claim by Kelvin Luk Kin-ting, 40, that he was in a serious and genuinely loving…
A Tasmanian man has lost a discrimination claim and subsequent appeal against the dating apps Tinder and Hinge, which banned him because he was a convicted child sex offender. Child safety advocate Kathryn Fordyce has applauded the rulings and the bans imposed by the dating apps, which she says have been used by paedophiles to…