Obsessed? Taoist priest charged with murder of disciple's daughter
A 54-year-old male Taoist priest is accused of murdering his disciple's 21-year-old mildly intellectually disabled daughter because she did not wake up at 9 a.m. as instructed.
The incident, which is currently being retried at the High Court, involved the accused slamming the victim's head against a wall, causing her to bleed, and forcibly making her drink Chinese Baijiu (a type of Chinese liquor).
The priest found the victim lifeless in the early hours and consulted a "predecessor," who allegedly indicated through a holy cup that the victim had "ascended to immortality."
The defendant, Cheung Chi-choi, a self-proclaimed Taoist priest and traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, shared the apartment involved in the case with his disciple and his disciple's family and had molested and assaulted the deceased.
The court continued to review Cheung's police caution statement video today (Sept. 30). Cheung claimed that he had always insisted the victim wake up at 9 a.m., but on Sept. 1, 2019, when she failed to do so, he entered her room, woke her up, and assaulted her.
Cheung reportedly pushed her head against the wall three or four times causing it to bleed; he continued to hit her in the abdomen several times and forcefully pushed the back of her head, causing it to hit a cabinet. After discovering the victim secretly drinking, Cheung forced her to consume the remaining alcohol in the bottle. That night, he found her "sleeping on the floor."
By the early morning of Sept. 2, Cheung noticed that the victim was fragile and, hours later, consulted the " predecessor ", who supposedly confirmed that the victim had "ascended to immortality." The victim's father reported the incident the following morning, and items such as the chair and liquor bottle were discarded.
The defendant recalled that he usually wrote talismans with black glutinous rice mixed with alcohol, and he had started assaulting the victim since March 2019, along with his 57-year-old disciple Ng Ma Yu-gang, who is the second defendant and the victim's mother. She is accused of assisting and inciting Cheung to molest her daughter in August 2019 sexually.
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