Kaohsiung District Court granted a prosecutors’ request on Friday to detain a doctor and his friend on suspicion of multiple acts of statutory rape.
Sixty-year-old Chen Che-wen (陳哲文), a doctor at the Bureau of National Health Insurance’s out-patient clinic center in Kaohsiung, and Lin Chun-chang (林俊滄), a sixty-year-old retired pharmaceutical salesman, were ordered detained by the court on suspicion of having sex with individuals under 18 years old, a violation of the Child and Youth Sexual Transaction Prevention Act (兒童及青少年性交易防治條例).
Prosecutors said the pair started luring young girls into having sex with them in 2008.
The men generally started by inviting the girls to have meals or visit cafes and KTVs with them and gave them money, prosecutors alleged.
Once the girls were at ease with them, the men asked to touch them or take a bath with them in exchange for money, gradually persuading the girls into having sex with them.
The prosecutor also allege that the girls were told they would receive a NT$2,000 “fee” for introducing their friends to them.
Police on Friday tracked Chen to a motel in Kaohsiung where he was allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old girl, who prosecutors say told the police she received NT$3,000 from Chen.
Police arrested Lin in another hotel in Kaohsiung as he was allegedly about to have sex with two 13-year-old girls, who said he paid them for sex, according to the prosecutors.
Prosecutors said Chen had the numbers of more than 100 teenage girls in his telephone address book, which was seized by investigators, who said they have already located more than 10 girls who have admitted to being violated by Chen and Lin.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is to launch a new program to encourage international students to stay in Taiwan and explore job opportunities here after graduation, Deputy Minister of Education Yeh Ping-cheng (葉丙成) said on Friday. The government would provide full scholarships for international students to further their studies for two years in Taiwan, so those who want to pursue a master’s degree can consider applying for the program, he said. The fields included are science, technology, engineering, mathematics, semiconductors and finance, Yeh added. The program, called “Intense 2+2,” would also assist international students who completed the two years of further studies in
Former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) departed for Europe on Friday night, with planned stops in Lithuania and Denmark. Tsai arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Friday night, but did not speak to reporters before departing. Tsai wrote on social media later that the purpose of the trip was to reaffirm the commitment of Taiwanese to working with democratic allies to promote regional security and stability, upholding freedom and democracy, and defending their homeland. She also expressed hope that through joint efforts, Taiwan and Europe would continue to be partners building up economic resilience on the global stage. The former president was to first
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amendment to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holidays (紀念日及節日實施辦法), which the parties jointly proposed, in its third and final reading today. The legislature passed the bill to amend the act, which is currently enforced administratively, raising it to the legal level. The new legislation recognizes Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28, the
RSS