The Modern Women’s Foundation yesterday urged prosecutors to charge entertainer Mickey Huang (黃子佼) and ensure he is punished more severely after being accused of sexual harassment and taking nude photographs of a minor.
Prosecutors investigated Huang in June last year, but the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Wednesday said he would not be prosecuted due to a lack of evidence.
During the investigation, Huang was found to be in possession of seven sex videos featuring a minor, but was sentenced to two years deferred prosecution, and ordered to pay a fine of NT$1.2 million (US$37,433) and write a letter of repentance.
Photo: Lin Hsin-ying, Taipei Times
While many people might think “there is nothing wrong with watching porn,” Huang’s videos came from a Web site that requires membership and provides sexually exploitative videos, the foundation said on Facebook yesterday.
The site was called the “Taiwanese version of the Nth Room” by local media when it was seized, the foundation said.
The Web site offered many videos that were filmed or acquired illegally, with footage taken using hidden cameras in restrooms and dressing rooms, and intimate images or sexual video footage of people’s ex-girlfriends.
Most of the illegal videos were uploaded with the victims’ Facebook or Instagram account details attached, the foundation said.
The victims live in terror and uncertainty, afraid to be identified and to come forward and accuse the offenders, it said.
Huang had been a VIP member of the Web site since 2013, so it was impossible for him not to know that most of the videos on the Web site were non-consensual, the foundation said.
The Web site’s members not only watched the videos, but also satisfied their unhealthy needs without consideration for others’ pain and privacy, it said.
They financially supported an industry that harms tens of thousands of women and children, so they are accomplices, it added.
The punishment Haung received was too light for a public figure, the foundation said.
The judiciary should reference verdicts from other countries to create standards by which to punish offenders who possess, distribute, film or produce sexual videos featuring a minor, it said.
It should also create criteria for indicting offenders, based on the number of sexual videos featuring a minor they are involved with, the age of the victims, the level of explicitness or cruelty, and the number of years they have been involved, the foundation said, adding that the government should also crack down on the sources of such content.
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