A National Taiwan University law student, surnamed Hung (洪), was on Friday indicted for allegedly selling and distributing sex videos of 321 people, the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office said.
The indictment said that the office received reports from seven people in December last year saying that they had been tricked into recording and distributing videos with sexual content.
Prosecutor Kuo Kui (郭奎) then led a team to investigate Hung, who was then a college student, the office said on Friday.
Photo: Chen Chien-chih, Taipei
The office said it obtained a warrant to search Hung’s residence on May 14, and confiscated his cellphone, laptop and flash drives, and gained access to Hung’s cloud drive. After going through the seized items, they found 6,918 sex videos and an account of allegedly illicit gains totaling NT$125,000.
The indictment said that Hung in 2022 created an X account to promote his Telegram chat group, where he allegedly provided a catalogue of 203 sex videos, including adults and teenage males, priced from NT$200 to NT$2,500.
Hung since 2023 allegedly started “hunting” for adult and teenage males on Instagram and, using a sound-changing device and the pseudonym Yang Yu-lin (楊語琳), persuaded them to either bare their genitalia or record themselves masturbating, the indictment said.
He allegedly acquired 289 videos of adults and 32 videos of teenagers, the indictment added.
Hung was charged with contravening the Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act (兒童及少年性剝削防制條例).
Prosecutors recommended that the court hand Hung a severe sentence, as his alleged actions had hurt many people.
They also requested that Hung be detained and his visitation rights be withheld, which the Taichung District Court granted.
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