Published: 8:00pm, 30 Oct 2025Updated: 8:22pm, 30 Oct 2025
A Hong Kong student has been sentenced to up to nine months of hard labour for coercing two 12-year-old girls into taking more than 250 nude photographs for him.
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The District Court on Thursday sentenced the 20-year-old man, only identified by his initials LYF, to a period of detention at a training centre on two counts of inciting a child under 16 to commit a grossly indecent act.
The crimes came to light when the father of one victim inspected her belongings a week after her suicide on March 15, 2023.
He discovered the accused had repeatedly requested nude photos from his daughter on WhatsApp and Instagram between December 2022 and February 2023.
A subsequent police inquiry found the girl, identified as X, had sent 190 obscene photos to the defendant between February 10 and 25, 2023.
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The investigation also found that another girl, Y, who was X’s secondary schoolmate, had sent at least 67 photos and six video clips to the accused via WhatsApp, some showing her in sexually provocative postures.