Senior adviser to Hong Kong leader Fanny Law stands by her claims 14-year-old schoolgirl offered free sex to frontline protesters
- Law tells the Post she knows for a fact the offer was made, but to reveal more details would be traumatic
- Facebook page operated by ‘fact checkers and rumour busters’ challenges Law to provide evidence or apologise for maligning young women involved in protests
A senior adviser to Hong Kong’s leader doubled down on a controversial claim she made on Monday that some young girls involved in the anti-government protest movement were misled into offering free sex to frontline demonstrators.
Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun, a member of Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s de facto cabinet, the Executive Council, said she knew for a fact that a 14-year-old schoolgirl had made such an offer.
“People are free to decide whether or not to believe it. Of course, I can trace the origin of the information through a trusted friend’s friend who knows the girl, but to reveal more details would be traumatic,” Law told the Post.
She was responding to criticism online after she first made the controversial claim on a radio talk show in the morning, saying she could confirm the story of the schoolgirl who later became pregnant.
A Facebook page operated by a group of “fact checkers and rumour busters” challenged Law to provide evidence or apologise for maligning young women involved in the protests.
“Preventive advice cannot be wrong,” Law told the Post. “Girls have to be alert and stay away from alcohol and marijuana in gatherings with ‘new’ friends whom they only met in various protest activities.”