A 16-year-old girl was sentenced to 30 months' probation for her role in stripping a Primary 5 female student and videotaping the attack three years ago.
Cheung Ka-ying was also ordered to reside in a teenage hostel for one year and to follow a curfew order.
She pleaded guilty earlier to a string of charges, including indecent conduct toward a child under 16, common assault and criminal intimidation.
In sentencing, magistrate Anthony Kwok Kai-on said in Fanling Court he believed Cheung's two-week remand in custody had taught her a lesson.
But he said Cheung's probation report was not positive - she had breached her probation order twice by taking drugs. The magistrate warned the teenager that if she was found taking drugs again during probation, she would be sentenced to either a treatment or rehabilitation center.
Cheung's 17-year-old sister, Ka- man and 18-year-old Wong Ching-yan, were earlier sentenced to a rehabilitation center, plus a two-year probation.
The court had heard the sisters and Wong were acquaintances of the victim and had even stayed at her home.
The incident occurred a day between September and November 2005 when the victim, then 12, was stopped at a Tin Shui Wai shopping mall by a teenage gang, including the three defendants.
The gang members accused the girl of stealing a T-shirt belonging to one of them before taking her to a secluded spot in the mall where she was beaten and forced to strip down to her panties.
They videotaped the assault with a cellphone camera and threatened to chop her hand off if she revealed the incident to other people.
She did not report the incident, but when her father received the video clip showing his daughter being molested two years later, he went to police.
Kwok had described the assault as a serious crime, saying the defendants lacked basic respect for others.
Another gang member - a 15-year- old girl - was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
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