Published: 8:41pm, 17 Nov 2025Updated: 9:28pm, 17 Nov 2025
A Hong Kong lawyer who admitted to having sex with a 12-year-old girl has maintained that they were in a genuinely loving relationship.
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Kelvin Luk Kin-ting’s legal counsel on Monday sought to convince the District Court that the defendant, 40, did not groom his victim to satisfy his sexual desires or take her naked photos for financial benefit.
The defence also contended that the Form One pupil had taken active steps to engage the accused as her sexual partner by lying about her age and sending him obscene content on social media.
The court heard that Luk, a former consultant at local law firm HY Leung & Co LLP, developed an “intense infatuation” with the girl, identified in court as X, after none of his previous romances with adult women turned into long-lasting relationships.
When the pair first met on dating app “Heymandi” in January last year, Luk claimed he was around 28 to 29 years old, while the girl portrayed herself as a senior secondary school student preparing for university entrance exams.
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They continued the relationship and met for the first time on March 4, even though they both realised that neither party had been truthful about their age.