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Were residents tied up and abused at Hong Kong home for disabled?

No arrests yet in police probe of private care facility in the New Territories

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The home is located in Kwai Chung in the New Territories. Photo: SCMP Pictures

The police have opened an investigation into possible abuse at a Hong Kong residential home for the disabled after images of tied-up residents surfaced on Tuesday.

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The Social Welfare Department said it alerted police after a Chinese-language media outlet published photos of residents tied to toilet seats and bound to beds at a private residential home in Kwai Chung run by Home of Treasure Company Limited.

The report also alleged the home had fed residents – all with varying disabilities – only vegetables and siu mai, a cheap dumpling often made of flour and preservatives, for meals.

A department spokeswoman said the government had organised for all the home’s residents to be assessed in hospital. Parents had been notified, she said, adding they had earlier been informed of and approved the use of constraints to “keep their children from hurting themselves”.

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A police source said officers had met with department officials, residents’ families and representatives of the residential home.

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