A Hong Kong professional rugby player has been acquitted of molesting a woman at a bar after a magistrate ruled the athlete had touched her buttocks by accident. But Faizal Solomona Penesa, 34, admitted a lesser offence of common assault and another charge of criminal damage, and was ordered by Magistrate Gary Chu Man-hon on…
A senior Hong Kong police officer has been convicted of indecently assaulting a subordinate on three occasions at the force’s headquarters in Wan Chai, with one of the incidents taking place at a work party in full view of several colleagues. Senior Superintendent Ian Chow Ngai-kong, 51, was found guilty by West Kowloon Magistrate Vivian…
A 10-year-old girl has told a Hong Kong court that a domestic helper inappropriately touched her when waking her up one morning. Standing trial at Kowloon City Court on Wednesday, helper Lady Jay Santos Flores denied four counts of indecent assault for allegedly molesting the daughters of her former employer. The younger daughter, who was…
A man has been arrested in Hong Kong for allegedly indecently assaulting a woman in a stairwell before fighting with her husband. Police said the incident occurred at about 12.54am on Monday in a stairwell outside a building on Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po. A 30-year-old woman surnamed Lai reported that she was indecently…
A Hong Kong professional rugby player has been accused of molesting a patron at a bar and damaging a door bolt inside a police station while he was held in custody. Faizal Solomona Penesa, 33, on Friday appeared at Eastern Court for the first time over a count of indecent assault and another of criminal…
A former Daytona Beach cheerleading coach who was arrested after police say he exposed himself over video chats to some of his students will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Erick Joseph Kristianson, 46, was convicted on Tuesday on 23 counts by a California jury for molesting 10 girls at a summer…
A Hong Kong barrister has been granted permission to hide his name in legal proceedings after being charged with molesting his pupil twice at his home eight years ago. The 32-year-old defendant, who represented himself at Eastern Court on Monday, applied for an anonymity order on the grounds that it could protect the identity of…
A Hong Kong vocal instructor has been found guilty of molesting seven male students over a six-year period. The District Court on Thursday convicted Drawson Lam Chun-yat of nine counts of indecent assault and two of common assault for the offences committed in his three classrooms in Cheung Sha Wan and Kwai Chung between 2018…
A Hong Kong police superintendent has been acquitted of molesting and assaulting a female subordinate four times over a seven-month period last year, with a magistrate saying that the defendant’s actions could be interpreted as “being merely playful”. Fanling Court on Monday heard that Chan Kin-yee, 42, was cleared of one count of indecent assault…