{"id":1362,"date":"2025-08-22T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:30:23","slug":"magistrate-acquitted-a-15-year-old-boy-of-allegedly-raping-a-girl-few-months-older-than-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/magistrate-acquitted-a-15-year-old-boy-of-allegedly-raping-a-girl-few-months-older-than-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate acquitted a 15-year-old boy of allegedly raping a girl few months older than him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_1008065292\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-2635554075\" class=\"text breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #627A80;\nfont-family: Merriweather;\nfont-size: 13px;\nfont-style: normal;\nfont-weight: 400;\nline-height: 150%; \/* 19.5px *\/\nletter-spacing: 0.39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/\">Home<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/news\/\">News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_1008065292 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\t<section class=\"section news-detail-section\" id=\"section_668212916\">\n\t\t<div class=\"bg section-bg fill bg-fill  bg-loaded\" >\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-2110065087\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1807611113\" class=\"col medium-12 small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div id=\"text-2881973650\" class=\"text h3\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>Magistrate acquitted a 15-year-old boy of allegedly raping a girl few months older than him<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1741825018\" class=\"text h5\">\n\t\t\n\n<p><strong>HKSAR v * (A Minor)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1741825018 {\n  font-size: 1.25rem;\n  text-align: left;\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n#text-1741825018 > * {\n  color: #003d4c;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-470744925\" class=\"text txt-bold\">\n\t\t\n\n<p>22 August 2025<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1370068978\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/57.-MTH.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1370068978 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"gap-1172635388\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1172635388 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n}\n@media (min-width:550px) {\n  #gap-1172635388 {\n    padding-top: 40px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p>Magistrate Byron Tsang acquitted the defendant, a 15-year-old boy at the time of the incident, of raping a then 15-year-old girl.<br \/><br \/>The Prosecution\u2019s case (which is also common ground) is that the Defendant (\u201c\ud835\uddd7\u201d) came to know the complainant (\u201c\ud835\uddeb\u201d) when he visited her place of work (a restaurant) with, amongst others, a common friend between them. X then took an interest in D and asked for his contact information. D later accompanied X to get a tongue piercing, and the two rode bikes with D\u2019s friends at night a few times. During one of the said bike rides and through WhatsApp, X confessed her romantic feelings towards D and asked if D could become her boyfriend. D, nonetheless, repeatedly rejected X as he was still \u201c\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude2f \ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude37\ud835\ude26 \ud835\ude38\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude35\ud835\ude29 \ud835\ude29\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude34 \ud835\ude26\ud835\ude39(-\ud835\ude28\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude33\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude27\ud835\ude33\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude26\ud835\ude2f\ud835\ude25)\u201d. Nevertheless, X persisted and even offered to pay D HK$ 200,000 and threatened to commit suicide when she once visited D\u2019s home on an uninvited basis during midnight hours seeking to talk to him.<br \/><br \/>The Prosecution alleged that one night (which was approximately a week after X came to know D), D and a few friends went to X\u2019s place of work and allegedly forced her to go home with them to play mahjong. X alleged that D took her personal belongings and she had no option but to comply. X alleged that D raped her in D\u2019s own bedroom on the following morning, with one of D\u2019s friends listening to the whole incident in the living room.<br \/><br \/>Having heard the evidence and viewed the WhatsApp records between the two, the Court found X\u2019s evidence incredible and acquitted D of rape. Magistrate Byron Tsang noted that during the alleged rape, even as described by X, there were plenty of opportunities where D had no control over X\u2019s body. However, X made no effort to resist D, nor did she ever attempt to escape. X\u2019s behaviour after the incident was even more confusing \u2013 she left D\u2019s bedroom after allegedly being raped, but then shortly went back in, slept together with D on the same bed until the afternoon, with D spooning her from behind. X then said that after she left D\u2019s home, X (on her own volition and verified by CCTV footage) went back to D\u2019s home. In the WhatsApp conversation between X and D immediately after the incident, her only complaints against D were that D \u201c\ud835\ude2c\ud835\ude26\ud835\ude31\ud835\ude35 [\ud835\ude1f] \ud835\ude38\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude35\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude2f\ud835\ude28\u201d and X lost her AirPods. The Court noted that X had the tendency to use \u201c\ud835\ude10 \ud835\ude24\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude36\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude25 \ud835\ude2f\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude35 \ud835\ude33\ud835\ude26\ud835\ude24\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude2d\u201d as an answer when questions detrimental to her case were put to her, but was well able to remember details in her favour.<br \/><br \/>The Court therefore could not draw the only irresistible inference that X and D had sexual intercourse, nor that X did not consent to that. <br \/><br \/>Simon So appeared with Jack Hui for the Defendant in the juvenile court in the 9-day trial.<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"gap-1335067783\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1335067783 {\n  padding-top: 60px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu stack stack-col justify-start ux-menu--divider-solid\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"ux-menu-link flex menu-item menu-button-link\">\n\t\t<a class=\"ux-menu-link__link flex\" href=\"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/news\/\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ux-menu-link__text\">\n\t\t\t\tBack to News\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_668212916 {\n  padding-top: 0px;\n  padding-bottom: 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Byron Tsang acquitted the defendant, a 15-year-old boy at the time of the incident, of raping a then 15-year-old girl.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonsochambers.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}