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Former care home warden jailed 13 years for raping disabled female resident

A former employee at a care home run by local charity Hong Chi Association has been jailed for 13 years for repeatedly raping an intellectually disabled female resident two years ago. The High Court. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Chung Pui-kei was sentenced at the High Court on Wednesday morning after judge Douglas Yau heard his legal team’s mitigation submissions. A former assistant warden at a residential care home operated by the Hong Chi Association, Chung was convicted of five counts of rape earlier in September after pleading not guilty. Noting that a psychological report assessed him as having a moderate risk of reoffending and being unremorseful, the judge condemned his conduct as despicable and did not grant him any jail term reduction. Yau added that a 13-year sentence was fair and just. During the trial, the court heard that Chung started working at the Tai Po care home 19 days before the first rape offence took place on July 13, 2024. Chung, who was 38 years old then, subsequently raped her four more times. Local media reported that the care home is the Hong Chi Pinehill Integrated Vocational Training Centre, which provides residential services. The victim, aged 22 at that time and identified in court only as X, has a mild intellectual disability, with an IQ equivalent to that of a nine-year-old. Hong Chi Pinehill Integrated Vocational Training Centre with residential services. Photo: Hong Chi Association. CCTV footage showed that Chung brought the victim to his office four times and entered her bedroom once, where police found semen on the victim’s bed sheets, the court heard. Judge Yau said on Wednesday that as an assistant warden, the defendant must have been aware of the victim’s condition. The judge criticised the defendant for exploiting the victim’s long