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The District Court heard Race Chan (not pictured) molested the man, identified as "X" for legal reasons, four times from January to May last year after taking him to medical appointments. Chan was a volunteer at the patient's rehabilitation centre. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Hong Kong Aids sufferer jailed for molesting stroke patient

Thomas Chan

A health care volunteer with Aids who had won awards for his service was jailed for three years and seven months for molesting a stroke patient while taking him to medical appointments.

Race Chan Kit-wai, 53, had sex with the 39-year-old man without using a condom despite being diagnosed with the virus in 2011.

Chan, who denied four counts of indecent assault, was earlier convicted by Judge Kwok Wai-kin, who reduced the jail term by four months because of Chan's record as a volunteer.

The District Court heard Chan molested the man, identified as "X" for legal reasons, four times from January to May last year after taking him to medical appointments. Chan was a volunteer at the patient's rehabilitation centre.

Kwok said that "the degree of assault [in the present case] was very serious" because X had problems with speaking and body movements after suffering a stroke in 2012. He was later certified as a "mentally incapacitated person".

Kwok criticised Chan for having sex with X without using a condom. Medical reports showed X did not contract the virus.

"The trauma that the victim had suffered was especially serious in two months following the assault," Kwok said. "His situation has improved after taking medication."

The judge also said the case involved a breach of trust as Chan had received permission from X's father to take X to medical appointments from his rehabilitation centre.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Aids sufferer jailed for assaulting stroke patient
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