Rape in Taiwan is sexual assault involving sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent in the nation. Victims and perpetrators include Taiwan citizens, residents, and foreign nationals from a wide range of backgrounds and every social class. [1] [2] [3]
Victims, some who are lured into sex trafficking in Taiwan, are raped in hotels and other locations throughout the country. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] There have been women deceived by perpetrators in fake modeling photoshoots. [9] [10] Some are victims of drugging, [11] [12] gang rape, torture, murder, [13] and sexual slavery. Victims suffer from physical and psychological trauma, ostracization, and, at times, suicide. [14] Rapes and attempted rapes have been committed by students, [15] teachers, [16] artists, [17] television personalities, [18] spa and massage workers, [19] medical staff, Taiwan military personnel, [20] [21] and others.
Rape was committed by Imperial Japanese Armed Forces personnel in Taiwan during the Asia–Pacific War. Comfort women from Taiwan were sex trafficked and sexually assaulted. [22]
Rapes in the country in the 20th and 21st centuries include, but are not limited to, the rape and murder of Pai Hsiao-yen, [23] the rapes of Lin Yi-han [24] and Wong He, [25] Justin Lee sex scandal, [26] and crimes of Chang Tso-chi, [27] Chen Jui-chin, [28] Jung Myung-seok, [29] [30] and Sakuliu Pavavaljung. [31]
In 1996, Taiwanese airman Chiang Kuo-ching was tortured into making a false confession of rape and murder of a five-year-old girl and was executed in 1997. [32]