Man jailed for three months after sexually assaulting streamer on Twitch Twitch: may5wA Hong Kong chef has been sentenced to three months in prison after sexually assaulting a Twitch streamer during a live broadcast in September. On September 11, 2023, Korean Twitch streamer \u2018may5w\u2019 was broadcasting her travels in Hong Kong when she was sexually assaulted. While she was making her way back to her hotel, a man suddenly pushed her against the wall in a stairwell of an MTR tram station and began groping her. The Twitch streamer repeatedly begged him to stop, but he continued with the assault despite her protests. Luckily, the streamer was able to break free and ran away, and was later guarded by another man who warded off her attacker. The shocking moment was all caught during May\u2019s live Twitch broadcast, leaving viewers shocked, appalled, and thankful for the man helping her out. It wasn\u2019t long before the man, a 46-year-old former chef in Hong Kong\u2019s Kennedy Town district, was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault and outraging public decency. Now, nearly two months later, he is officially facing charges. Man faces jail time after sexually assaulting Twitch streamer According to reports from the South China Morning Post, the defendant pleaded guilty to indecent assault and was reportedly under the influence of alcohol during the incident. Counsel for the defense claims that the man developed a dependency on alcohol due to falling into a depression after being separated from his family in India and \u201cand lost control of himself\u201d upon seeing the Twitch streamer alone. According to his defense, the man lost his job as a result of his arrest and \u201ccould not be more ashamed\u201d of his actions. Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei rejected the defense\u2019s appeals for a second chance and found his behavior \u201cdespicable and offensive.\u201d \u201cThe harassment lasted for quite some time, and I find the degree of indecency was considerable and escalating,\u201d Chui stated, per the SCMP. \u201c\u2026The incident was actually captured by the live-streaming video, which would inevitably [destroy] the reputation of Hong Kong.\u201d Amit has been sentenced to three months in jail \u2014 a reduction from his initial sentence of four and a half months in prison. Although May has not made a public statement regarding the man\u2019s sentence, she did publish a YouTube video discussing the subject in October. In her video, she explained that the man initially asked her for help getting to his destination. May claimed the assault began after she agreed to help him. \u201cThis was the first time I had experienced such a situation and I was too shocked to even think about shouting,\u201d she explained in the video. \u201c\u2026Rumors have emerged, including the absurd claim that I staged a drama to become famous and promote racial discrimination. \u2026it hurt me more than being sexually harassed that day.\u201d \u201cThis experience makes me realize the importance of being cautious when helping others or showing kindness, and it saddens me deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man jailed for three months after sexually assaulting streamer on Twitch Twitch: may5wA Hong Kong chef has been sentenced to three months in prison after sexually assaulting a Twitch streamer during a live broadcast in September. On September 11, 2023, Korean Twitch streamer \u2018may5w\u2019 was broadcasting her travels in Hong Kong when she was sexually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}