Ten-year-old girl arrested for HK$5 million jewellery theft may have been beaten with hanger by father
Source says social worker found bruises on child while she was in police custody and alerted officers
A primary school girl arrested on suspicion of stealing HK$5 million (US$641,000) worth of jewellery from her father’s friend may have been a victim of child abuse, according to police sources.
Police listed a case of suspected child abuse at 5am on Thursday involving a 10-year-old girl in Lung Moon House in Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate – the same public housing estate where the girl suspected of theft lived.
Police sources confirmed it was the same girl who had been arrested two nights ago.
The force revealed on Thursday morning a social worker had found bruises on the girl’s arms and legs and reported the case to police.
Three Hong Kong schoolgirls, aged 10 to 12, arrested for allegedly stealing HK$5 million in diamond jewellery
Preliminary investigations showed the girl could have been “assaulted” by her father with a clothes hanger last month because of “familial issues”.
We sent her straight to hospital from the police station in the presence of her aunt.