The Ciaotou District Court has sentenced a man in Kaohsiung to three months in prison for stalking a female university student over a three-month period.
The sentence can be converted to a fine of NT$90,000 and the ruling can be appealed.
The man, surnamed Su (蘇), who began pursuing the woman, identified as A, on Feb. 18 last year, repeatedly waited for her at a bus stop near her school, waving at her whenever she neared, the verdict said.
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Despite being ignored, Su intensified his efforts by following A to her family-owned food stall, where he would watch while holding bouquets of flowers and monitoring her movements from the veranda of a nearby convenience store, the court said.
On May 24 last year, the harassment escalated when Su refused to leave the victim’s family’s food stall, prompting a report to the Kaohsiung City Police Department’s Gangshan Precinct.
Police summoned Su for questioning and referred the case to the Ciaotou District Prosecutors’ Office on suspicion of stalking and harassment offenses.
Su, who admitted to the allegations, was indicted on charges of contravening the Stalking and Harassment Prevention Act (跟蹤騷擾防制法).
The judge found that his conduct constituted repeated and continuous stalking and harassment.
Considering that Su had failed to reach a settlement with the victim, the court handed down the three-month custodial sentence.
Meanwhile, the Hsinchu District Court has sentenced a man to 50 days in detention for stalking his former girlfriend by repeatedly calling and messaging her for 20 days following their breakup.
The detention can be converted to a fine of NT$1,000 per day.
The man, surnamed Tseng (曾), met the woman, whose name was withheld, in May last year and the relationship ended on May 8.
Dissatisfied with the split, Tseng began sending derogatory messages and making repeated phone calls that disrupted the woman’s daily life and social activities, the verdict said.
He initially used the return of a set of keys as a pretext to spend the night at the woman’s residence and then began bombarding her with phone calls and voice messages, the court files said.
He has allegedly threatened her with “daily surprises” and malicious reports to her employer, falsely claiming that she was mentally unstable and had allegedly been sexually assaulted at work.
The judge found that Tseng’s actions constituted repeated and continuous harassment.
Considering the means of the stalking, its duration and frequency, as well as the significant impact on the woman’s mental health and daily life, the court found Tseng guilty of stalking and harassment under Article 18-1 of the act.
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