Disgraced ex-carer at scandal-hit children’s home jailed for 2½ years after admitting assaults on 11 toddlers
- Woman, 64, gets heaviest sentence so far in Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children abuse scandal after she pleads guilty to string of attacks
- Judge tells Fung Fung-ho children were brutalised for ‘trivial matters’ and she had no excuse for loss of self-control
A Hong Kong part-time childcare worker has been jailed for 2½ years after she admitted assaults on 11 toddlers – the heaviest sentence so far in a string of cases involving a scandal-hit home run by a major child protection group.
The 64-year-old mother of two also complained about the stress caused by understaffing at the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children home in Mong Kok, as well as an increased incidence of conflicts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Judge Edmond Lee Chun-man told Fung child care was known to be a stressful job, and society still expected those who worked in the sector to exercise self-control.
Lee highlighted the children were attacked because they had misbehaved in ways such as leaving the permitted area of activity or moving around in their sleep.
