Name: Hong Kong court places baby Danny in Social Welfare Department care for 3 years
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Fiona Chow

A Hong Kong court has granted the guardianship of home-born baby Danny to social welfare authorities for three years after his parents were arrested on suspicion of child neglect.
Danny’s father, Tsang Wai-bong, revealed on Friday that his two-month-old son would be under the Social Welfare Department’s care after the Juvenile Court granted the authorities’ application for a protection order at a closed-door hearing.
“The court just went through the motions and passed the protection order,” Tsang said after the hearing.
Tsang and his partner Kwan Pui-sin previously failed to register Danny’s birth and only agreed to undergo DNA testing to prove their parentage after they were arrested earlier this month for alleged child neglect.


The baby has been in protective care since early June, and the unmarried couple earlier disclosed that social welfare authorities had classified him as a “high-risk” child. They were allowed to visit him once a week.
The father said that they would not appeal against the court’s decision but hoped to take the child back within a year or two by passing assessments.
He criticised the court and the social welfare authorities for focusing only on whether Danny would receive recommended medical treatment, while neglecting the parents’ views on minimising invasive procedures where possible.
According to the couple, Danny developed a fever and a cough and had been in hospital since Sunday. The mother later told the press that the fever had gone down after she breastfed him several times.
Kwan maintained that they were not against modern medicine but hoped to avoid diagnostic treatments – such as blood taking and X-rays – for the baby if his symptoms had shown improvement.
Tsang said they would cooperate with social workers and hoped to visit Danny more often in the future.
A Social Welfare Department spokesman said that it had convened a multidisciplinary case conference with professionals for a comprehensive assessment on the case, which concluded it was a case of child neglect.
He said the department had submitted a report to the court setting out recommendations on the welfare plan for the child.
“The Social Welfare Department will arrange [for] the baby boy to receive care by professional staff continuously at the existing residential child care centre and carry out the welfare plan and care arrangements as directed by the court,” he said.
He added that the department would provide counselling for the family and report the progress to the court.
The couple said that the professionals at the multidisciplinary case meeting concluded that their son should stay in the shelter, with one of the risk factors being the parents’ refusal of vaccinations and health check-ups.
Authorities stepped in after the couple posted extensively on social media last month about their four-year-old daughter, Lily, who was taken into care by Swedish social services in 2023.
According to legal documents from overseas courts, the couple’s eldest daughter, Constance, died in infancy after a home birth in Finland in 2019. Lily was also born at home and the family later moved to Sweden.
Just this month, a Swedish court threw out Tsang and Kwan’s attempted appeal against the local social welfare administration’s application to transfer Lily’s legal guardianship to a foster family.
Additional reporting by Fiona Sun


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Couple will not appeal against court decision but hope to take back home-born child within one to two years


Couple will not appeal against court decision but hope to take back home-born child within one to two years.


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Hong Kong court places baby Danny in Social Welfare Department care for 3 years

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Couple will not appeal against court decision but hope to take back home-born child within one to two years