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| Accused will be sentenced on July 21 |
According to local newspaper Sing Pao, the accused, Rochelle
Lintag Dreck, admitted the assaults when she appeared at Eastern Court on Friday, July 7.
Dreck admitted to assaulting the boy in the kitchen of
Yeung’s house on Baker Road
in Mid-Levels, at the Convention Plaza Apartments on Harbour Road in Wan Chai, and at Canossa Hospital Old Peak Road in 2016.
She began working for Yeung in 2010, or six years before the
former chairman of the Birmingham Football Club was put back behind bars after
losing his appeal against a six-year jail sentence imposed on him in 2014 for
money laundering.
The boy’s mother, who has a business in Shenzhen, returned
to Hong Kong every weekend, leaving her son in
the care of helpers.
In early 2016, she reportedly noticed wounds on the boy
but did not ask what caused them. In May the same year, she again saw injuries on
her son’s ears and asked her domestic workers about them. One of the helpers
then showed Mrs Yeung some videos she had taken of Dreck’s attacks on the
boy. The mother called the police.
In the videos, Dreck was seen slapping the boy, hitting
his hands with a comb, and poking his lip and nose, causing his nose to bleed.
When asked about the assaults, Dreck reportedly asked
the magistrate for leniency, blaming the boy for being very naughty. She also
said she had lost her job after she was arrested and could no longer send money
to support her own three children in the Philippines .
The magistrate
dismissed Dreck’s explanations as mere excuses. The Filipina was remanded in
custody pending sentencing. – reports
from Sing Pao and Apple Daily
