Hong Kong Retiree Sentenced for Slapping Child
A 61-year-old Hong Kong retiree received 40 hours of community service for slapping a five-year-old boy. The incident occurred in January at a shopping center after the child reportedly acted out and spoke disrespectfully.
A Hong Kong retiree has received 40 hours of community service for slapping a five-year-old boy who threw a tantrum and berated his domestic helper at a shopping centre earlier this year. Lok Kam-ming, 61, returned to Tuen Mun Court on Friday to be sentenced for what his lawyer described as an incident arising from the “unfortunate encounter” between him and a child whom he first met at Grand Yoho in Yuen Long on January 8. Lok, who pleaded guilty last month to assault occasioning actual bodily....