BishopAccountability.org
	Student on Priest Sex Blackmail Rap By Patsy Moy The Standard November 19, 2009 http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=90816&sid=26143227&con_type=1 The Catholic Church is facing a new sex scandal after a Chinese University PhD student appeared in court yesterday accused of blackmailing a priest. Economics student Cheung Ka-wo, 27, is accused of attempting to extort HK$6.3 million from a Catholic priest identified as "X" by threatening to reveal "intimate images" from their past association. Cheung is also charged with conspiracy to blackmail a Catholic churchgoer identified as "Y." The student is alleged to have conspired with Dora Kay Li to commit the offenses, Kowloon City Magistrates' Court was told. According to the prosecution, Cheung used some "intimate images" to demand HK$6.3 million from "X" in letters sent in April and May this year. Prosecutors claim the priest had already paid Cheung HK$920,000. Cheung previously gained media attention after successful investments in the stock market. He was reported to have made more than HK$1 million in two days of derivative trading, earning him the nickname "Warren Buffett of Chinese University." No plea was taken yesterday and principal magistrate Andrew Ma Hon- cheung allowed Cheung cash bail of HK$5,000 pending the transfer of the case to the District Court. The Catholic Diocese declined to comment. In 2003, former Catholic cleric Michael Lau Ka-yee, 42, was jailed for four and a half years for indecent assault, gross indecency and attempted buggery. The offenses took place in January 1991 and July 1992 in Lau's quarters at St Joseph's Catholic Church and at the Anglo Chinese Primary School in Ngau Tau Kok. It was the first time in Hong Kong's legal history that a priest had been convicted of sexually abusing a child in his care. At the time, District Court Judge Maggie Poon Man-kay lambasted Lau for introducing his victim to the "sins of the flesh."
Any original material on these pages is copyright © BishopAccountability.org 2004. Reproduce freely with attribution.