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

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor and tutor connected to a children's home

Organization

No organization assigned

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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

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

Cited 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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Source and tier basis: https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/11/267051/Pastor-gets-lengthy-prison-term-for-sexually-assaulting-teens Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 8522cde9ac0bcf31b7cbb7ae5cfd818ab5912d2a6c01893fc388c331dd1d2d11
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