A Hong Kong primary schoolteacher who molested five pupils three decades ago has been jailed for two years, after one of his victims was inspired by the #MeToo movement to lodge a complaint against him.
The District Court heard the housewife, named X to protect her identity, lodged a complaint against her English teacher Mak Lung-yee last year after reading the news of a female athlete speaking up about sexual assault in the wave of #MeToo reports.
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