{
  "id": 3010684,
  "title": "CUHK academic who allegedly hid marital status cleared of indecent assault",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/cuhk-academic-who-allegedly-hid-marital-status-cleared-of-indecent-3010684",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T11:15:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3365077/cuhk-academic-who-allegedly-hid-marital-status-cleared-indecent-assault"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been acquitted of indecently assaulting a woman who reported him upon discovering he was married, after a court found the pair had been mutually attracted and that the man may have wrongly believed she had consented to being touched. Magistrate Raymond Wong Kwok-fai acquitted Peng Peng, 38, at Sha Tin Court on Monday,…",
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        "outlet": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
        "title": "CUHK academic who allegedly hid marital status cleared of indecent assault",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/cuhk-academic-who-allegedly-hid-marital-status-cleared-of-indecent",
        "published": "2026-08-24T11:15:23.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}