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Man admits taking boy

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A MENTALLY retarded man yesterday admitted abducting a five-year-old boy when he was on probation for taking two other boys away from their guardians.

Cheung Sik-tim, 37, pleaded guilty to a count of abducting a child.

By committing the new offence, Cheung breached a probation order imposed on him in July 1993.

He was at the time placed on probation for a maximum term of three years in respect of the abduction of Tsang Kin-kay, then nearly three, and Chan Chiu-kan, then 31/2.

According to a psychiatric report prepared in 1992, Cheung suffered moderate mental retardation.

The court heard Cheung had a mental age of between three and six, having suffered from meningitis when he was young.

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