Hong Kong authorities have been urged to toughen penalties for child abuse as a proposal to review protection laws for minors, which were last updated in 1995, has remained stalled for seven years.
A check by the South China Morning Post found that over more than 20 years, only one of 13 serious child abuse cases involving ill-treatment or neglect of a child or young person resulted in a jail term close to the maximum of 10 years.
Lawmakers earlier this month called for increasing the 10-year…
Time to act on stalled proposal toughening child abuse penalties, lawmakers say
