Hong Kong mother on trial for neglect admits her ex-husband is not the biological father of her child
Mandy Wong had previously told the court that her co-accused, Rocky Ling, was the girl’s natural father
A woman accused of neglecting her seven-year-old daughter to a state of near death admitted for the first time in court on Monday that the child was not fathered by her ex-husband, who is on trial beside her.
But Mandy Wong Wing-man, 42, denied lying in the witness box, despite having told the jury under oath last Thursday: “Ling Yiu-chung was her father, her natural father.”
At the time, Wong had insisted that her co-defendant Rocky Ling Yiu-chung, 52, was Suki Ling Yun-lam’s biological father and that it was he who suggested bringing the mainland-born child to Hong Kong so he could raise her.
Records showed Suki was born in 2009 and entered Hong Kong in November 2014.
The High Court previously heard she was then enrolled in a local kindergarten, where she performed well in mathematics and drew pictures with the words “Daddy and Mummy I love you”, before teachers taught her how to write the complicated Chinese character for “love”.
But she did not always attend school and dropped out in April 2015.