By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-17 10:44:02 | Updated at 2024-10-17 13:21:28
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A Hong Kong English tutor and former pastor of a children’s care home has been sentenced to six years and six months in jail for drugging and sexually assaulting six young men, with the judge slamming the defendant for preying on vulnerable victims and breaching their trust.
Jackson Choi Kin-hang, 51, on Thursday pleaded guilty to 24 charges, 16 of which were for repeated sexual assaults on victims between May 2020 to August 2021 at various locations, including hotel rooms where he had invited some of the victims for overnight stays.
He also pleaded guilty to seven counts of administering drugs to obtain or facilitate an unlawful sexual act, and one count of possession of child pornography.
The High Court heard Choi first met the victims between 2012 to 2016, when they were between the ages of 13 to 16, during English tuition lessons, services at the children’s care home, and church activities. He kept in touch with the boys after they had entered into adulthood.
Madam Justice Amanda Woodcock said the defendant presented himself as a “fatherly figure” to the victims, a few of whom came from broken families, and took advantage of his position.
“He acted like a predator and had begun grooming them from a young age,” the judge said in sentencing.
Referring to several impact reports on the victims prepared by psychologists, the judge said the offences to the victims were “life-changing”
