A former university administrator was sentenced to 10 months in prison on September 3, 2026, after admitting two counts of indecent assault involving an 11-year-old boy while working as a volunteer tutor at a Hong Kong Community Organisation Association homework-support class. The two sentences will run concurrently.
The boy was reportedly touched over his clothing on his private parts and buttocks on August 20 and 27, 2022. The alleged acts were reportedly captured on closed-circuit television, and the boy told his mother about the incident on August 27.
The case was sent back to the District Court for retrial after a prosecution appeal succeeded. At the original trial, the defendant was convicted of one of three charges and acquitted of the other two, receiving a seven-month prison sentence. He admitted the two charges for which he had initially been acquitted at the retrial.
The judge said the substantial age gap between the defendant and the boy, and the defendant’s role as a tutor, meant that his conduct breached the trust between teachers and students. The court also noted that the conduct took place on two separate days rather than being a single incident.
The court set 16 months as the starting point for the two offences. It reduced the sentence to 10 months after taking account of the guilty plea and the procedural complications experienced by the defendant.
The boy did not want to revisit the incident, so no trauma assessment or report was obtained. The judge said the possibility that the incident had caused psychological trauma could not be ignored even without such a report.
The defendant, 48, was formerly an administrator at a university business school. In mitigation, the defence said he had learned a significant lesson and deeply regretted his conduct in letters submitted to the court. A psychological report said he had no paedophilic or sexual disorder and assessed his risk of reoffending as moderately low.