Hong Kong teenager given 120-hour community service order for posting, trying to sell obscene photos of women online
- Eastern Court magistrate says she is convinced Li Nok-hang ‘did not think carefully’ when committing the crime, with immediate guilty plea leading to reduced sentence
- Li admitted to posting online three obscene photos of two women undressing in a public library to make money by selling them
An 18-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy has been sentenced to a 120-hour community service order after he pleaded guilty to posting and attempting to sell online photos of women undressing in a public library.
An Eastern Court magistrate on Thursday said she was convinced that Li Nok-hang “did not think carefully” when he committed the offence and that his immediate guilty plea led to the community service order rather than a harsher penalty.
“In this case, you also hoped to make money through these actions because you and your mother depend on one another and [you] hoped to make more money to help with your own studies,” Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei told Li.
“I’ve considered the overall situation … [The defendant] chose to plead guilty at the first opportunity, and the defendant is still relatively young.”
The secondary school pupil earlier this month admitted to posting three obscene photos of two women on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on March 4 last year in a bid to make money by selling them.
The images included a screenshot from a viral video of a woman wearing only a face mask at the Hong Kong Central Library in Tin Hau.