2 women carers admit assaults on toddlers at Hong Kong children’s home
- Woman who hit two one-year-old boys at children’s home to be sentenced later this month
- Another care worker who hit two-year-old girl released on bail for pleas in mitigation to be prepared
Two women who worked at a Hong Kong home run by a child protection charity on Thursday admitted assaults on youngsters in their care.
Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court heard that Cheung Wai-yin hit a one-year-old boy on the head and slapped his face after he dropped a quilt on a bedroom floor.
The defendant, a relief childcare worker, also pushed another one-year-old boy in the head and slapped him twice after he put a toy on his head.
Cheung, 30, pleaded guilty to two charges of ill-treatment or neglect of a child – the latest in a string of abuse allegations involving the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children’s residential home in Mong Kok.
The court head Cheung committed the offences at the home between November 29 and December 5 last year.
Acting principal magistrate Peony Wong Nga-yan, who saw video footage of the incidents, said the offences were “very serious”.
