How a legal loophole is failing Hong Kong survivors of long-term sexual abuse

It took Eva Chan* more than a decade to find the courage to walk into a police station and report the sexual abuse she had endured for about six years at the hands of a family member she had lived with as a teenager. Reporting the abuse when she was 16 was unimaginable. At the time, her mother had discovered what had been happening and had driven the perpetrator out of their home. “There’s no professional support, as school social workers might not handle these cases often and might not know...