Woman had sex with dad to stop his marriage

Hong Kong: A daughter accused of incest offered sex to her father because she did not want him to marry his fiancée, a Hong Kong court heard.

The District Court heard earlier on Monday that the two occasions in which the now 26yearold daughter had sex with her father took place in 2009.

A psychological report her lawyer cited on Monday revealed that the incidents came at a time when her father, a Chinese medicine practitioner, was about to tie the knot with his fiancée.

The prospect deepened the desperation of a daughter who had been deprived of her mother’s love, her lawyer said.

“She offered to have sex, hoping that he would change his mind,” she argued in mitigation.

The report added the two sexual encounters arose from “misplaced love, infatuation and devotion to her father”.

Both the daughter – referred to as C.C.M. to protect her identity – and her 58yearold father, C.P.K., pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of incest.

Judge Timothy Casewell sought a probation officer’s report to study the possibility of a noncustodial sentence for the woman, but refused to seek the same for the father.

“The situation is different,” Casewell said. “The consideration is different.”

The court heard earlier that the pair’s intimate encounters took place when the daughter was 19.

The encounters came to light when the woman’s younger brother, who was then a secondary school student, found footage of the intercourse. The brother then alerted police.

In mitigation on Monday, the woman’s lawyer urged the court to distinguish the case from those involving parents and underaged children, which she said involved a breach of trust.

“This case is highly unusual,” she said.

Before the case was brought to the court, she added, the woman once tried to tell the prosecutors to hold her fully responsible so that her father could walk free.

The codefendants await sentencing on June 12. — South China Morning Post