A 32-year-old man from the mainland was arrested in a guestroom of a hotel in Cotai on Thursday for sexually harassing a local university student in her twenties, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Lam Keong said during a regular press conference on Friday.
According to Lam, the Public Security Police received a report from a hotel security guard in Cotai on Thursday afternoon that a woman had been sexually assaulted, so PSP officers were dispatched to the scene. The victim told the officers at the scene that she had first been verbally harassed by a man in the hotel lobby on Wednesday evening, after which he had followed her from the lobby into a shop in the hotel, where he suddenly hugged her and touched her chest and buttocks.
Lam said that the victim only calmed down the next day and decided to return to the hotel lobby to call the police through a security guard. Lam added that the Public Security Police identified the suspect as a hotel guest surnamed Zhang and arrested him in his guestroom.
Under questioning, Zhang, who admitted to committing the offence, claimed that because he was coveting the victim’s beauty, he “accosted and groped” her, Lam said.
Zhang has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing a sexual harassment charge, according to Lam.
This handout photo provided by the Public Security Police (PSP) on Friday shows police officers escorting the sexual harassment suspect to a police station in Taipa.
