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Bar Association broadly backs new offence for persistent child sexual abuse

The Hong Kong Bar Association has said it “broadly supports” a dedicated offence for persistent child sexual abuse, after concerns over evidential issues in such cases were resolved in other jurisdictions in the past two decades. Vice-chairman Martin Hui Siu-ting said that while the association had reversed previous reservations it expressed when the city last discussed such a proposal in 2001,…

Bar Association broadly backs new offence for persistent child sexual abuse

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