Hong Kong judge slams woman convicted of neglecting ‘Cinderella’ daughter over lack of remorse
Judge Kevin Zervos said it was time for someone to speak up for Suki Ling Yun-lam, 7, as she could no longer do it for herself
The judge sentencing a woman convicted of neglecting her seven-year-old daughter to the point where she was “corpse-like” with irreversible brain damage cast doubt on the mother’s expressions of remorse and likened the child to “Cinderella” on Thursday, saying she was unwanted by the family.
High Court judge Mr Justice Kevin Zervos was sceptical when defence counsel Leung Chun-keung, for Mandy Wong Wing-man, 42, told him that Suki Ling Yun-lam might originally have suffered from some unknown underlying conditions in the first place.
Leung argued that Suki herself might have refused to eat on one occasion when Wong had beaten her. He said one of Suki’s sisters, who had also chastised her, backed up the incident.
“If [Suki] suffers from a condition, causing her to refuse her to eat, the picture will be different,” Leung said, citing the possibility of anorexia.
