They grow up so fast. A 10-year-old boy was arrested in Tin Shui Wai on Thursday after a 7-year-old boy reported him to the police for extortion.
The 7-year-old told police that four boys in Primary Four cornered him at school earlier this month and said he had been “naughty”, Apple Daily reports.
They reportedly threatened to tell a teacher about his behaviour and said he would receive a demerit on his school record unless he paid them HKD5,000.
Spoiler alert: Primary One students (and Primary Four students, for that matter) don’t have that kind of dough. The child instead resorted to rifling through his brother’s lai see packets and his mum’s wallet to get HKD1,000, which he handed over to one of the older boys, aged 10.
A few weeks later, the 7-year-old confessed what had happened to his family when his brother complained that his money had gone missing. After consulting the school, their mother reported the incident to the police, who arrested the 10-year-old.
Oriental Daily reports that the boy admitted under police caution to receiving the HKD1,000, and said he spent it on a shopping spree. He was released on bail after questioning, and is required to report back to the police next month.
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