Hong Kong grandmother gets 20 days for slapping five-year-old girl at play area
A Hong Kong grandmother has been sentenced to 20 days in jail for slapping a five-year-old girl who squabbled over a basketball with her grandson in a play area at the atrium of APM shopping centre in Kwun Tong. Leung Lai-ha, 68, on Thursday pleaded guilty to assaulting the girl on August 26, admitting that she hit the girl on impulse. A video of the brawl showed three adults were involved: Leung, her 34-year-old daughter Ng Ka-wun, and Xu Yang, 34, the girl’s mother. The physical altercation...
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[Claude] Report 2 is a near-identical rewrite of Report 1 covering the same sentencing of Leung Lai-ha for the APM basketball incident, with no conflicting facts.
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