‘It’s a misunderstanding’: parents speak after baby Danny assigned social welfare custody
Infant placed into care of authorities after parents arrested on suspicion of neglect, while another daughter remains in social welfare custody in Sweden.
The case of baby Danny made headlines in Hong Kong after the infant’s parents reportedly refused a DNA test to prove he was biologically theirs. The mother, Kwan Pui-sin, had given birth at home. Authorities said they did not have sufficient evidence to issue a birth certificate. Before Danny, the couple reportedly had two other children while living in Finland. Their first daughter died a month after Kwan gave birth in 2019, and a second daughter has been in the care of Swedish authorities for 2.5 years. The father, Tsang Wai-bong, said “misunderstandings” were behind all of the cases where they lost custody of their children. The couple spoke with the South China Morning Post hours after a Hong Kong court ruled that baby Danny would remain in the care of the city’s Social Welfare Department for three years.
Correction: this video has been updated to identify baby Danny’s mother as Kwan Pui-sin, amending a spelling error in her surname.