Former employee of scandal-hit Hong Kong child protection group pleads guilty to abuse, first of 27 suspects to do so

• Defendant, 46, admits she ‘wilfully assaulted and ill-treated’ a two-year-old boy last year, including pushing his head against a wall and grabbing his hair
• She had been at childcare facility run by Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children since 1996 until she was dismissed in January