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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Hong Kong · 2003

Hong Kong: feng shui master jailed for 'mystical rites' sex with a fourteen-year-old

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

feng shui master consulted as a spiritual practitioner

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Her compliance was manufactured out of ritual necessity — the rites were the coercion.

  • Ritual, oath, or initiation
  • Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2003-01-31 · guilty plea and sentence

    Court of First Instance, Hong Kong. O Kai-on, a feng shui master, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on 31 January 2003 to four and a half years for two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a fourteen-year-old girl in May 2002, procured through purported mystical rites; the judge found he had cynically exploited the trust placed in him.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed ritual necessity used to manufacture the girl's compliance

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report South China Morning Post: 'Fung shui master jailed for mystical rites sex'.

Hong Kong paper of record's court report.

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