Hong Kong father convicted of raping his daughter
Jury finds 61-year-old guilty of 10 charges spanning three years
A jobless father who molested his daughter every day since she was five was found guilty of rape in the High Court on Tuesday.
The defendant, who photographed some of the incidents, was unanimously convicted by a seven-person jury of all 10 charges he faced: six counts of rape and four of making child pornography of his daughter. He had earlier pleaded not guilty.
The 61-year-old man, whose name cannot be revealed to protect his daughter’s identity, is to face sentencing on May 4 pending psychological reports on the victim.
High Court judge Madam Justice Maggie Poon Man-kay noted she would take into account the seriousness of the crimes before she passed sentence.
The court earlier heard that the father molested his daughter, now nine, between 2011 and 2014, when the girl, known as X, was five to eight years old.
X said in a recorded interview shown in court that since the first incident, which took place when she was five, her father began to molest her every day during the evening newscast, for as long as an hour.