Prosecutors in Hong Kong are considering a lower age limit for sex offenders after a 13-year-old boy who raped a young girl in a hospital last year was unable to be charged with rape, news reports said on Friday.
The disturbing assault took place in September last year at the Pamela Youde Eastern Hospital when the 13-year-old Korean boy pulled down a 5-year-old girl’s pants and raped her. Both children were patients in the children’s ward of the hospital.