The former dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Macau (UM), John Mo Shijian, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a female student from the mainland enrolled in another local university, has been remanded in custody.
Mo’s pre-trial detention was first reported by the Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM on Wednesday night. However, the initial report did not mention the reason for his arrest, merely that it was not related to financial issues. The report identified the suspect as John Mo.
In a statement yesterday, the police confirmed the arrest of a local university professor for allegedly having assaulted a female mainland student, and the Public Prosecution Office (MP) confirmed in a statement that a man surnamed Mo was remanded in custody for the alleged sexual assault of a woman.
This undated photo retrieved yesterday from the website of the University of Macau (UM) shows the sexual assault suspect, former dean of the university’s Faculty of Law (FLL), whose employment contract as a professor was terminated by the university yesterday. The photo was put on the website in late 2011 – when he was appointed as the dean of UM Faculty of Law – in a statement about this appointment.
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