HKU student gets 18 months’ probation for filming woman in nude with hidden camera
Cody Jims Ha, 21, put micro-camcorder on bookshelf in victim’s dorm room
A University of Hong Kong student was given an 18-month probation order on Monday for secretly placing a camera inside a female resident’s dorm room and filming her in the nude.
The 21-year-old statistics and actuarial science student, Cody Jims Ha, earlier admitted to three counts of dishonest use of a computer and confessed that he had secretly filmed the victim on three separate occasions in April, May and July last year in the student hall of HKU’s St John’s College.
Appearing in the Eastern Court on Monday morning, the defendant’s lawyer said Ha was full of regret over his acts and had been receiving psychological counselling. He was willing to follow the probation conditions if given a chance.
Principal magistrate Bina Chainrai said the defendant was a young man with a supportive family and believed the event was unlikely to be repeated.
She adopted recommendations in Ha’s psychological and psychiatric reports and handed down a probation order, but for 18 months instead of the 12 months that were suggested.
He has to receive psychiatrist and psychological treatment