The parents of a 15-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing for six weeks fear she may have killed herself to meet a spirit she was in love with.
They also complained police have not done enough to find Wong Ka-ting - who dropped out of school in February after being bullied - since they reported her missing on May 25, five days after she disappeared.
Yau Tsim Mong district councillor Chan Wai-keung, who is helping the family, said Ka-ting left a letter in her schoolbag saying she would jump into the sea so she could join the spirit, which she met at a seance, in the netherworld. Police found the bag at the Tuen Mun ferry pier on June 9.
They have also contacted a man in his 20s with whom she made a HK$3,000 sex deal online the day before she vanished. Mr Chan said the girl's father told him officers found records of an instant messaging chat with the man on her computer.
He said the parents were worried the girl might be involved in compensated dating or under the control of a cult if she was still alive.
He accused the regional missing person unit in Kowloon West of being perfunctory in their treatment of the case since the initial investigation, rejecting a request from the family to post pictures of the girl in Tuen Mun.