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Jasmine Siu

A father who raped his daughter for two years after she turned eight has been jailed in Hong Kong for 15 years.
On Thursday, counsel for the father argued in mitigation that the girl “did not suffer major trauma” and presented Mr Justice Patrick Li Hon-leung a letter she sent to him in prison, suggesting she still had a good relationship with him.
“I miss you very much,” she wrote in a letter received by prison staff on February 8 last year.
“Did you lose weight over there? When will you come back? I scored 70 in my Chinese dictation. Are you happy?”

The letter, as seen by the Post, was decorated with small hearts inscribed with the words “love you” and a dot-to-dot drawing of what appeared to be a flower.
“I could picture that, five petals,” the judge said with a smile.
But he immediately added: “That appears to be contradicted by [her] psychological report.”
The High Court previously heard the father, a 44-year-old builder identified only as H.K.H. to protect his daughter’s identity, had assaulted her on at least seven occasions, with all but the first incident involving rape. But not all of these attacks made it to court.
Of the three charges, the first took place in 2015 while the girl’s mother was away from their Tuen Mun home.
At the time, the girl had asked her father for a new pair of underpants because she had wet herself. But instead of helping her, he ordered her to close her eyes while he removed her underwear and rubbed himself against her.
The assault escalated in the summer of 2017 when the father, who had won custody after divorcing his wife, raped the girl despite her attempts to resist by kicking and pushing him away.
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But his attacks soon came to light when she wrote to the school two days after he raped her for a second time on November 19, 2017.
“I was forced to have sex with my father,” the 10-year-old wrote in an anonymous note slipped into a letter box for questions on sex education. “How should I deal with it? Will I get pregnant?”
H.K.H. was convicted earlier this month on one count of indecent assault and two of rape, after jurors rejected his portrayal as a loving father puzzled by his daughter’s lies.
A victim impact assessment recommended the girl receive psychological treatment, after finding her evasive, emotional and disturbed by her father’s attacks, to the point it affected her studies and daily life.
The court also heard she feared retaliation and was worried by the possibility of others learning what had happened to her.
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In passing sentence, the judge slammed H.K.H. for the serious abuse of trust placed upon him by his own child, who lacked the ability to protect herself.
Li also commended the school for setting up the letter box and its prompt handling of the child’s note, which he believed had prevented more serious assaults.
H.K.H. did not react to the sentence, except to say before leaving the dock: “I want my daughter’s letter back.”
Rape carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.


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The father, known as H.K.H in court, was sentenced to 15 years. Photo: Roy Issa

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Defence counsel uses letter 10-year-old sent saying she loved her father as part of mitigation plea
But judge dismisses claims and points to psychological report that says victim was disturbed by what happened


Defence counsel uses letter 10-year-old sent saying she loved her father as part of mitigation plea, but judge dismisses claims and points to psychological report that says victim was disturbed by what happened.


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Hong Kong father who raped young daughter jailed for 15 years

Defence counsel uses letter 10-year-old sent saying she loved her father as part of mitigation plea But judge dismisses claims and points to psychological report that says victim was disturbed by what happened

Defence counsel uses letter 10-year-old sent saying she loved her father as part of mitigation plea

But judge dismisses claims and points to psychological report that says victim was disturbed by what happened