Twenty-four-year-old Lee Wai-man was found guilty of nine counts of ill-treatment and neglect towards children by Kowloon City Court magistrate Andrew Mok Tze-chung this morning. 

The charges accused Lee of willfully assaulting and abusing four boys and a girl, all aged one; a two-year-old girl, and three other unidentified children at the society's Children's Residential Home on Portland Street in Mong Kok between November 19 and December 20 last year. 

When defending herself, Lee claimed that her hands “slipped” when lifting the toddlers mid-air before throwing them onto the ground. 

Yet, Mok rejected Lee's explanation and slammed her for violently attacking the kids by taking advantage of her seniority. Mok added Lee was only trying to sugar-coat her crimes which were all caught by the security camera, and pointed out that what Lee had done was shameful. 

Since the child abuse scandal broke out in December last year, a total of 34 workers have been prosecuted, and today's hearing marked the first trial upon a not-guilty plea. 

Five other workers had pleaded guilty earlier and were jailed for between four weeks and about five months.