A teacher in Hong Kong received a three-year good behavior bond for slapping her 13-year-old son during an argument. She avoided a criminal conviction for the assault charge.

A teacher in Hong Kong has been spared a criminal conviction for slapping her 13-year-old son during a heated dispute last year after entering into a three-year good behaviour bond. The 35-year-old was bound over for HK$1,000 (US$128) at Kwun Tong Court on Wednesday for three years on a charge of assault by a person in charge of a child or young person. Court documents identified her only as MBC and did not disclose her nationality. She was accused of slapping her son at their Sai Kung home on.....