Hong Kong social welfare authorities have classified baby Danny as a “high-risk” child and recommended he remain in protective care, while Sweden has moved to permanently transfer custody of his elder sister Lily to a foster family, according to the children’s parents.
The developments come ahead of a hearing at West Kowloon Juvenile Court on Friday over a protection order for Danny, the two-month-old whose home birth and delayed registration triggered a child neglect investigation earlier this month.
The parents said on Thursday that Swedish authorities had yet to arrange Lily’s return to Hong Kong despite a final deportation order issued by the country’s Migration Court of Appeal in 2024. Instead, they said, authorities had moved to permanently transfer custody to a Swedish foster couple.
Hong Kong couple Tsang Wai-bong and Kwan Pui-sin have been at the centre of a controversial cross-border child welfare case involving their three children.
They launched the “Save Lily” campaign after Swedish authorities took their second daughter into care in 2023 over child welfare concerns during a period of undocumented stay. The case followed the death of their eldest daughter, Constance, in infancy in Finland in 2019.
Their son was placed under a protection order earlier this month following his home birth and delayed registration.