Hong Kong parents may lose battle over daughter Lily amid fight for baby Danny

Hong Kong parents may lose battle over daughter Lily amid fight for baby Danny

Ahead of court hearing over son, Tsang Wai-bong and Kwan Pui-sin say Swedish authorities have yet to arrange daughter’s return to Hong Kong

Hong Kong social welfare authorities have classified baby Danny as a “high-risk” child and recommended he remain in protective care, while Sweden has moved to permanently transfer custody of his elder sister Lily to a foster family, according to the children’s parents.

The developments came ahead of a hearing at the West Kowloon Juvenile Court on Friday over a protection order for Danny, the two-month-old whose home birth and delayed registration with authorities triggered a child neglect investigation earlier this month.

The parents, Tsang Wai-bong and Kwan Pui-sin, said on Thursday that Swedish authorities had yet to arrange Lily’s return to Hong Kong despite a final deportation order issued by the country’s Migration Court of Appeal in 2024.

Instead, they said, authorities had moved to permanently transfer custody to a Swedish foster couple.

They launched the “Save Lily” campaign after Swedish authorities took her into care in 2023 over child welfare concerns during a period of undocumented stay.

The case followed the death of their eldest daughter, Constance, in Finland in 2019.

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