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| The accused will now be tried in this court on Aug 1 |
The trial of a Filipina accused of ill-treating and
indecently assaulting her 10-year-old male ward has been postponed until Aug 1
in Kowloon City Court.
Angela Vivo appeared in court again today, Jun 20, but Magistrate Raymond Wong decided to postpone her trial for a further six weeks to give the defense enough time to study the voluminous transcript of the video-recorded interview with her alleged victim.
Vivo’s bail was extended until her next court appearance.
Her lawyer had applied for a postponement so he could read
through the certified English translation of the interview transcript, which
the prosecution failed to produce yesterday, when the trial was originally set
to start.
The magistrate had scolded the prosecution for the
oversight, saying the certified transcript was “in fact, the main case”.
The first count of ill-treatment against Vivo allegedly
happened sometime in February 2016 near the Yaumatei fire station when the boy
was 6 years old. The second, in July the same year in the boy’s house, and the
third near the Mongkok police station on Sept 7 last year.
Vivo also denied that indecently assaulting the boy in his
home between 2016 and 2017, and again in 2018. – Vir B. Lumicao
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