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Hk teacher lure teens to hotel with modelling ads MEETING teens at a hotel or his home, he would take photos of them in their school uniforms, often telling them to unbutton their blouses, take off their bras or wear only towels. In some cases, he even touched the girls' breasts, reported Hong Kong papers. Henry Chan, 32, a secondary school teacher with paedophiliac tendencies, lured the teen model wannabes by posting model recruitment ads online.

Chan was sentenced to 49 months' jail in Hong Kong on Monday.
He had pleaded guilty to 16 counts of offences, including indecent assault, creating and possessing child porn. Nine girls aged 11 to 15 fell victim to him between 9 May and 4 Jun last year. Some of them received between HK$300 ($50) and HK$500for the sessions. District Court Judge Stanley Chan Kwong Chi ordered Chan to have psychological, psychiatric and behavioural treatment and medication during his jail term. The maximum sentence for indecent assault is 10 years' imprisonment.

For creating and possessing child pornography, the maximum sentences are eight and five years respectively. Police arrested him at home and found 1,615 pictures of the children, and 24 child pornography images in his computer. In his online ads, Chan listed Disneyland as the venue of the photo shoot, but arranged to meet in a hotel or his home instead. The judge noted that although Chan had touched the girls' breasts, he did not expose himself or do anything else that was morally offensive to them. He said he believed that the teacher was truly remorseful.

The judge noted a dangerous trend of the post-1980 generation who are willing risk being alone with a stranger for a shot at fame. Said the judge: "Longing to live the romanticised life of a model, for just several hundred dollars they were willing to risk getting assaulted, to bare themselves and pose for a stranger in an unfamiliar place." He added that this case should act as a serious warning as it was lucky the victims did not suffer more mistreatment.

Chan's lawyer, Mr Peter Wong Ting Kwong, said his client had sought treatment in secondary school after he started having abnormal sexual inclinations in primary school. It was unclear when he started having paedophiliac tendencies, but he had been receiving psychiatric treatment and help from his church for years. In a letter to the judge, Chan said that he had warned his family not to leave him for long periods of time, or he would lose self-control.

The photo-shoot sessions took place in the month when his family members were away on a trip, the court heard. Most of the girls whom Chan photographed did not require counselling, but their trust in the opposite sex had dropped, said the judge. Although Chan was diagnosed as a paedophile, he had no criminal record and continued teaching. Chan added in his letter to the judge that he had always been able to control himself although he had sexual fantasies about students.

More discussion on identifying paedophiles is needed in Hong Kong, said Mr Koo Kam Wing, a sex therapist with a family service centre. He said it was hard for schools to identify diagnosed paedophiles unless they had committed a sexual offence.