CUHK academic who allegedly hid marital status cleared of indecent assault

An associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been acquitted of indecently assaulting a woman who reported him upon discovering he was married, after a court found the pair had been mutually attracted and that the man may have wrongly believed she had consented to being touched. Magistrate Raymond Wong Kwok-fai acquitted Peng Peng, 38, at Sha Tin Court on Monday, following hearings that began in July. Peng had pleaded not guilty to two counts stemming from alleged...

By Simpson Cheung