{
  "id": 329342,
  "title": "Bar Association broadly backs new offence for persistent child sexual abuse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/bar-association-broadly-backs-new-offence-for-persistent-child-sexual-329342",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-08T04:00:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3363364/bar-association-broadly-backs-new-offence-persistent-child-sexual-abuse"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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,…",
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        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "Bar Association broadly backs new offence for persistent child sexual abuse",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/bar-association-broadly-backs-new-offence-for-persistent-child-sexual",
        "published": "2026-08-08T04:00:27.000Z"
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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."
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