The Control Yuan on Wednesday censured a junior high school in Taoyuan for reportedly covering up the sexual abuse of students by a baseball coach, who allegedly raped and harassed 22 children.
The Control Yuan said in a statement that the school’s principal, former principal and dean of students hired the coach, whom it called unqualified, and worked to impede an investigation into the school’s misconduct.
Although the Control Yuan withheld the name of the school, it identified the coach by the surname Huang (黃).
The coach is being investigated by law enforcement over charges of sexual assault and using corporal punishment against
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A national museum on gender equality and human rights issues should be established, human rights groups and the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation said yesterday, which was International Memorial Day for Comfort Women.
Known euphemistically as “comfort women,” hundreds of thousands of girls and women from Asian countries were abducted and forced into sexual slavery prior to and during World War II by the Japanese military, a UN report said.
At the newly relocated Ama Museum in Taipei, foundation chief executive officer Tu Ying-chiu (杜瑛秋) announced the launch of programs and exhibitions documenting the stories of Taiwan’s comfort women, “so people would not