The New Taipei City District Court has sentenced a taekwondo coach found guilty of sexually abusing 11 young female students to 29 years and six months in prison.
The coach, identified only by his last name, Lu (呂), was convicted on Jan. 30 of multiple contraventions of the Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act (兒童級少年性剝削防治條例) and the Criminal Code, a recently published court document said.
The 11 victims were at the time elementary and junior-high-school students who attended a training school in the city where Lu taught, the court document said.
Photo: Chen Wei-tzu, Taipei Times
As their trainner, Lu took advantage of the opportunity to sexually abuse the students, including taking indecent photos and forcing two of them to have sex with him.
Lu committed 109 incidents of abuse from 2019 to 2022, the document showed.
The victims’ parents later filed a complaint against Lu, prompting New Taipei City prosecutors to open an investigation.
In August 2022, Lu was indicted on charges including sexual exploitation of children and aggravated forced sexual intercourse with people under the age of 14.
He resigned from teaching at the school on Oct. 15, 2022.
The taekwondo coach repeatedly denied the crimes and said he was framed by the school due to a dispute with its management, the court document showed.
Only after the evidence was presented to him did he admit to taking the indecent photos, but showed little remorse and even made up excuses to rationalize his actions, it said.
Lu was tried for crimes against each of the 11 students in the case, resulting in a combined jail term of 29 years and six months.
The ruling can still be appealed.
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