Hong Kong domestic helper found guilty of sex with boy aged 8
Judge finds Filipino, 45, guilty of three counts of indecent assault and dismisses her evidence as ‘a travesty of the true nature of events’
A domestic helper who had sex with an eight-year-old boy was found guilty on Monday of three counts of indecent assault.
The 45-year-old Filipino woman, who told the District Court she was a lesbian, will be sentenced next month pending submission of an impact report on the victim and a psychologist’s report on the helper.
The court heard that she molested the boy and engaged in penetrative sex with him in a Kwai Chung flat three times between 2011 and 2013.
The sexual orientation of the defendant does not preclude her from committing the three offences
Judge Johnny Chan Jong-herng also accepted the boys claims in a recorded video interview of “numerous” uncharged indecent assaults as “true and reliable”.
“In my judgement, the sexual orientation of the defendant does not preclude her from committing the three offences and the uncharged acts in question,” Chan said in his verdict.
The helper, who lived with the boy’s family between 2007 and 2013, had previously told the court that she was not attracted to men and had had two lengthy same-sex relationships since she came to Hong Kong in 2001.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges and described the boy as a “freak sometimes” with “wild flights of imagination”.
