Mainland Chinese woman, 18, who had sex on Hong Kong street, given one-year probation
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 08 July, 2015, 10:58am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 08 July, 2015, 5:35pm
Thomas Chan [email protected]
A mainland Chinese woman was today sentenced to one year of probation for having sex in public on a Hong Kong street three months ago.
Passing sentence, Kowloon City magistrate Dr Eric Cheung Kwan-ming reminded Wu Xinyi, 18, to behave herself and follow the instructions of the probation officer.
Wu had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of committing an act outraging public decency, in that she had sex with a man outside the student residential hall of Polytechnic University on Fat Kwong Street in Hung Hom on April 1.
The court heard that in the early hours of April 1, Wu and a man who removed her pants were spotted by a security guard having sex at a bus stop near the student residential hall.
Three minutes into intercourse, the security guard yelled at them, but to no avail.
The guard then saw the pair conduct oral sex, when he returned after notifying police. The pair were not aware of the passers-by at the time, the court heard.
The man only noticed that police officers were called to the scene after he was patted on his shoulder by an officer.
In mitigation, defence counsel Caesar Lo Chi-lam said that Wu had a good background and excelled in her academic studies. “It was an isolated incident, and [she] was affected by alcohol at the time,” Lo said, adding that she was very remorseful.
Wu’s co-accused, 19-year-old mainland Chinese student Yang Hao, pleaded not guilty to the same charge at an earlier hearing and will face trial on August 13.
