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Chris Lau

The boss of a children's charity and recipient of a World Outstanding Chinese Award was yesterday given a 12-month probation order after being convicted of abusing her adopted four-year-old son.
Dr Nancy Chu Ping, chairwoman of the Nancy Chu Charitable Foundation, had pleaded guilty to three counts of ill-treating and neglecting a child in May and June.
The boy had told police that he was hit hard on the arms, legs, face and head, Eastern Court heard earlier.
But a report on Chu, 56, and her family gave a positive review, showing they had led a happy life since the abuse, Magistrate So Wai-tak noted yesterday.
Although the report did not suggest a probation order, the magistrate decided this was the most suitable punishment.
He told Chu that she could "learn the proper ways of teaching children".
Chu, clad in a black blazer, ducked behind her legal representative, who was carrying an umbrella as they left court on a drizzly morning.
The abuse of her young son came to light in June after the family's domestic helper showed pictures of his injuries to a friend, a helper living next door in South Horizons, Ap Lei Chau. Her friend then informed her own employer, who called the police.
The Chus' helper first witnessed her hit the child with a plastic stick on two occasions a month before she raised the alarm, the court had heard. She then saw the defendant beat the boy again, about 15 times, after he wrote on a wall in their flat.
The pictures she took during the assaults in May under the nose of her employer showed a large red patch on the boy's back and two more patches, one on each of his upper arms.
Another picture, taken in June, showed red marks on the right side of his face.
In 2010 in Hong Kong, Chu was honoured with the 12th World Outstanding Chinese Award at a ceremony organised by the World Chinese Business Investment Foundation to celebrate successful ethnic Chinese worldwide.
In the same year, she set up the foundation to help the young and the elderly.
The organisation said on its website that it undertook charity projects in Qingdao , Shandong , in 2011 - the latest updates available online.
Attempts by the South China Morning Post to contact the foundation via a number on its website were unsuccessful. A woman who answered the calls declined to confirm it was the foundation or to reveal its latest projects.


Boss of children's charity convicted of beating her adopted four-year-old son with a stick

Chu won a World Outstanding Chinese Award in 2010.

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The boss of a children's charity and recipient of a World Outstanding Chinese Award was given a 12-month probation order after being convicted of abusing her adopted four-year-old son.
