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■ CONSTRUCTION

CLA halts work on 14 plants

The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) on Friday suspended work at 14 of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant's 51 construction sites in Taipei County because of hazardous working conditions and imposed a fine of NT$800,000 (US$24,600). The move came after another worker was reportedly killed at the job site on Friday, the second death there in the past three days. The death of a worker on Wednesday at the site in Gongliao (貢寮) prompted the council to conduct extensive inspections of the facility and to make a thorough review of the power plant's 51 work sites on Friday. Seven workers have died at the power plant since 2004, said Lin Chin-chi (林進基), head of the council's Department of Labor Inspection.



■ Crime

Rapist gets 102 years in jail

A man was sentenced on Friday to 102 years in prison for using chloroform and a stun gun to knock out and then rape the teenage daughters of his friends and other members of the Taiwanese community in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio. Chien Tai-wu, 50, pleaded guilty in November to charges of rape, attempted rape, felonious assault, aggravated burglary and illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material. Prosecutors said Wu volunteered to watch his friends' homes and pets while they were on vacation and later used their garage door codes and keys to enter the homes and rape their daughters. "It is the position of the state that the defendant should go away forever, and I mean forever," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said. Wu received the maximum sentence allowed by Ohio law. Because of the drugs, some victims did not remember being raped, thinking they had dreamed an attack, prosecutors said. But one teenager woke up during an attack and identified Wu.
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