WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1988
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PROSECUTIONS FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED
IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, 62 CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS WERE REPORTED, AND 30 PROSECUTIONS WERE INSTITUTED, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY BARNES, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON RICHARD LAI, MR SAID THAT 22 CASES WERE REPORTED IN 1985, 20 IN 1986, 18 IN TWO BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH THIS YEAR.
BARNES AND
1987
"IN 1986, EIGHT PERSONS WERE PROSECUTED, OF WHOM TWO WERE ACQUITTED AND SIX CONVICTED," MR BARNES SAID.
"IN 1987, SIX WERE PROSECUTED, OF WHOM TWO WERK ACQUITTED AND FOUR CONVICTED.
"BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH 1988, TWO PROSECUTIONS INSTITUTED AND ARE NOT YET CONCLUDED.
T
WERE
ON THE SENTENCES PASSED BY THE COURTS IN 1986 AND 1987 MR BARNES GAVE FIGURES SHOWING THAT THESE RANGED FROM A FINE OF $400 FOR INDECENT ASSAULT TO IMPRISONMENT FOR SEVEN YEARS FOR RAPE.
NEW CLINICS WILL IMPROVE SPECIALIST SERVICES
AND 1996 TWO NEW SPECIALIST CLINICS WILL BE COMPLETED BY 1991
PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF
TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR SPECIALIST SERVICES, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE HON JOHN CHAMBERS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HO SAI-CHU, MR CHAMBERS THE NEW CLINICS WOULD BE LOCATED AT THE PAMELA YOUDE HOSPITAL AND NORTH DISTRICT HOSPITAL RESPECTIVELY.
SAID
THE
OF PUBLIC SECTOR HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PROVISION
HOSPITAL CENT FROM BEDS FOR ALL SPECIALTIES WOULD BE INCREASED BY OVER 50 PER
WHEN THE VARIOUS ABOUT 22,000 AT PRESENT TO NEARLY 35,000 IN 1996, MAJOR NEW HOSPITAL PROJECTS AND EXPANSION SCHEMES HAD BEEN COMPLETED.
"THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN SERVICES,
"
HE SAID.
/REFERRING TO