The Taiwan High Court (台灣高等法院) recently sentenced a man surnamed Wang, who forced his wife to have sex with him, to four and a half years in prison.
The defendant is allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court (最高法院) within 10 days of the date when the verdict is received.
The judge took Ms. Wang's testimony, her female colleague's testimony and a report from the hospital regarding Ms. Wang's examination and believes that Wang raped his wife.
According to the indictment, Wang has been violent with his wife and forced her to have intercourse with him for the past two years. However, he denied that he "raped" his wife and said that he accidentally injured his wife while they were having sex.
Wang and his wife got married at the end of 1998. Wang and his wife had different working schedules. The indictment said that Wang constantly asked his wife for sex, even if she was tired. The indictment also said that Wang would beat her up if she refused his advances.
Wang's wife said in the indictment that Wang pressured her for sex again sometime in February of last year. She refused because she needed to chair a meeting the next morning.
The indictment said Wang beat her up after her refusal, which caused her to faint in the office the next day.
The indictment also said that a female colleague of Wang's wife figured out that there was something wrong so Ms. Wang finally told her colleague that she had been "raped" by her own husband.
"I did not rape her," Wang said before the trial. "I believe that having sex with your spouse is the responsibility of a married couple."
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