A married elementary school principal in Taipei County has been temporarily suspended after being accused of having affairs with five to six women he met on the Internet.
Taipei County Government Education Bureau Director General Liu He-ran (劉和然) told a press conference that the bureau had launched an investigation into the allegation against Chiu Hsien-nung (邱賢農) after receiving a report from a bureau inspector on Wednesday last week.
Chiu is principal of Yifang Elementary School in Rueifang Township (瑞芳).
Liu said an initial investigation found Chiu had dated a number of women he met online, although Chiu had said he only dated one woman named Hsiaomi (小咪), who filed a complaint against Chiu at the bureau on Friday.
The bureau called yesterday’s press conference after the latest issue of the Chinese-language Next Magazine quoted Hsiaomi as saying that she met Chiu on a dating Web site.
He claimed to be an unmarried teacher at a cram school, she said.
They became physically intimate after having chatted online for more than a month, the magazine quoted Hsiaomi as saying, adding that she later found that Chiu was also having an intimate relationship with another woman he met on the Web site.
The magazine said it received complaints from two other women in the middle of last month, who alleged that Chiu had been seeking women on different dating Web sites, using at least nine different pseudonyms.
Next said it confronted Chiu and he admitted spending office hours surfing dating Web sites under assumed names.
Chiu said the bureau had punished him by giving him a major demerit.
Liu vowed to complete a full investigation into Chiu’s activities within one week, adding that the principal might be transferred to another position if the allegations were found to be true.
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