A woman in her 70s whose violent confrontation over a Taipei MRT priority seat went viral in September was yesterday charged with attacking a father and daughter with an umbrella on the MRT last year.
The woman, surnamed Tseng (曾), was charged with causing bodily harm to a minor over the umbrella attack on Feb. 4 last year, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement.
Tseng was riding on the Taipei MRT’s Orange Line toward Minquan West Road Station at about 1:30pm, when she asked a man sitting with his young daughter to get out of priority seats, prosecutors said.
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When the man refused, Tseng took her umbrella and struck the young girl on the leg, bruising her, the indictment said.
After the girl’s father, surnamed Lee (李), filed a police report, Tseng failed to comply with multiple summonses for questioning.
Prosecutors later issued a warrant for Tseng’s arrest, leading to her indictment yesterday for intentional injury to a child by an adult under the Child and Juvenile Welfare and Rights Protection Act (兒童及少年福利與權益保障法).
Tseng was previously in the news over a video that went viral in September in which she hit a young woman with her tote bag for refusing to give up a priority seat.
The woman stood up and kicked Tseng, sending her across the carriage into a seat on the other side, the video showed.
Days later, the police were called on Tseng for causing a commotion in a convenience store on Yanping North Road, leading to her arrest on an outstanding warrant for larceny.
The case was referred to the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office, which has yet to press charges.
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