A teenager was sent to a training centre yesterday for having sex with a 12-year-old girl who later gave birth.
Ku Tsz-hong, now 16, earlier admitted to one charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, which occurred last September.
A probation report submitted to the District Court said Ku's ability to control himself was poor. Other reports from rehabilitation, a training, detention and drug-addiction treatment centres said Ku's attitude was unco-operative and evasive.
Deputy Judge Johnny Chan Jong-herng said the court could not ignore the gravity of sexual offences against underaged girls. The girl had given birth to a boy at the age of 13.
A training-centre sentence was suitable for Ku, Chan said, would have a deterrent effect and would reflect society's disapproval of such offences and the pain suffered by the victim and her family.
Prosecutor Dominic Ngai Chun-pong earlier told the court Ku got to know the girl on the internet last year and that she had told him she was 14.
