CUHK academic who allegedly hid marital status cleared of indecent assault

An associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been acquitted of indecently assaulting a woman who reported him upon discovering he was married, after a court found the pair had been mutually attracted and that the man may have wrongly believed she had consented to being touched. Magistrate Raymond Wong Kwok-fai acquitted Peng Peng, 38, at Sha Tin Court on Monday, following hearings that began in July. Peng had pleaded not guilty to two counts stemming from alleged...