The Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office has for a second time declined to indict a former McDonald’s supervisor accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old student employee, who later died by suicide.
Again citing insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing, the office today said that the full details of the prosecutors’ decision not to prosecute cannot be made public as the case involves allegations of sexual assault.
In April last year, prosecutors dropped the case due to insufficient evidence, after which the deceased student’s mother filed for a reconsideration.
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The High Prosecutors’ Office returned the case to the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office for further investigation.
The case first came to light when the student’s mother posted on social media following her daughter’s suicide.
In August 2022, the teen, who was 16 at the time, began working as a part-time employee at a Taipei branch of McDonald’s, and not long after, a supervisor groped her waist, breasts and buttocks, her mother said.
The sexual assault and harassment continued for one year, and her daughter became too afraid to go to work and wanted to quit, but the manager refused to sign the paperwork, she said.
She deliberately skipped shifts until she was dismissed, after which she filed a police report and a sexual harassment complaint with McDonald’s in March 2024, the mother said, adding that the company offered no explanation or consolation.
The teen ultimately took her life in November 2024, she said.
If experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call the 1925, 1995 or 1980 hotlines in Taiwan for help.
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