English teacher held on suspicion of drugging, sexually assaulting 7 male students in Hong Kong
- Suspect was arrested after one teen allegedly awoke in Wan Chai hotel room after ingesting a pill to find the teacher molesting him
- Officers discover 600 photos of the 18-year-old on a tablet in the room and more than 30,000 others on hard disks at the teacher’s home, police say
An English teacher who also volunteers at a Hong Kong church has been arrested on suspicion of drugging seven of his male students, sexually assaulting them and photographing them nude over the past 13 months.
Police discovered images of the alleged victims among 30,000 photos and video clips on a tablet and computer hard disks belonging to the 49-year-old man, said Inspector Wong Cheung-chun of the Wan Chai district crime squad on Wednesday.
The teacher was detained on suspicion of indecent assault in a hotel on Hennessy Road in the early hours of Tuesday after police received a report from an 18-year-old student.
According to the force, the teen attended classes at the private tutorial school where the man worked and they first met in 2016. The suspect invited him to the hotel room to chat and drink beer on Monday night.
“The suspect offered the victim a capsule that he claimed was used to protect the liver, but it was filled with sleeping pill [powder],” Wong said.
The teen fell asleep after taking it and awoke at around 3am to find the teacher allegedly molesting him. The student ran out of the room and called the police.
