Hong Kong: life imprisonment for the death of a disabled disciple declared spirit-possessed
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self-styled Taoist priest and feng shui master with a 'spirit disciple'
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CORE, and among the corpus's starkest: an intellectually disabled woman held as a 'spirit disciple' and killed by the ritual itself — with her own mother convicted alongside, showing the authority reaching through the family to reach her.
- Exorcism or deliverance
- Spiritual healing or treatment
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2024-10-18 · convictions and sentence
High Court of Hong Kong (Judge Judianna Barnes). Cheung Tsz-choi, a self-styled Taoist priest and feng shui master, was sentenced on 18 October 2024 to life imprisonment for the murder of Wu Enyu, a twenty-one-year-old intellectually disabled woman he had declared spirit-possessed and taken as a 'spirit disciple', and to ten years concurrent for indecent assault. She died of alcohol poisoning after being force-fed during 'exorcisms', her body bearing some eighty injury marks. Her mother, aged 57, was convicted of aiding and abetting the indecent assault and received ten years.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- the victim declared spirit-possessed and subjected to 'exorcisms'
- beatings and force-feeding of alcohol as ritual treatment
- the victim's intellectual disability and total dependence
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Hong Kong court report of the life sentence, 18 Oct. 2024.
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