A man has been convicted of sexually harassing the same high-school student traveling by train on four separate occasions, with the Taiwan High Court sentencing the man to a jail sentence of seven years and two months.
The 42-year-old software engineer, surnamed Yu (游), regularly took the train from Yingge (鶯歌) to Taipei City for his daily commute.
The ruling said he groped the 16-year-old student in November of 2010 using a heavy winter coat as a disguise, interfering with the girl on a crowded train for about 10 minutes.
Later that month, Yu was on the same carriage with the girl again, the ruling said, adding that this time he went further by putting his hand into the girl’s dress and underwear, and proceeded to grope her for about 20 minutes.
When she returned home that night, the girl wrote in her diary that she broke down and cried because of what happened.
Yu groped her again in December that year, the ruling said, adding that later the next year, he was on the same train carriage and touched her again.
However, this time, the teenager sought help from a woman standing nearby and they got the police to arrest Yu.
In the court proceedings, Yu would only admit to “having touched the high-school student by accident” on the day he was arrested, and denied touching her on other occasions.
The judge convicted Yu based on videotape evidence, witness testimony and the teenager’s entries in her diary.
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