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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Hong Kong · 2024

Hong Kong: children's-home pastor jailed after drugging and assaulting six teenage residents

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor and tutor connected to a children's home

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

CORE: adolescents in residential care, under a man holding both pastoral standing and custodial access — compound authority over children the state had placed.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-01-01 · guilty pleas and sentence

    Hong Kong court. Choi Kin-han, 51, a pastor and tutor connected to a children's home, pleaded guilty to twenty-four charges — sixteen counts of indecent assault, seven of administering drugs to facilitate unlawful sexual acts, and one of possessing child pornography — for drugging six male teenagers with sleeping pills disguised as supplements between May 2020 and August 2021 and assaulting them. He was sentenced to six years and six months. The offending came to light when one victim woke during an assault.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • sleeping pills disguised as supplements administered to residents
  • pastoral and residential-care authority over adolescents in institutional care

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report The Standard (Hong Kong): 'Pastor gets lengthy prison term for sexually assaulting teens'.

Mainstream Hong Kong press court report.

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