Allegations that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜) was abused by her boyfriend have exposed the need to improve social support systems for victims of violence, as well as the danger of worshiping someone’s online image.
The Chinese-language magazine Mirror Media on Tuesday last week published a series of reports, citing a friend of Kao’s saying she was beaten and detained by her boyfriend, Raphael Lin (林秉樞), in a hotel room for two days two weeks ago. Lin was allegedly jealous about messages from a former boyfriend that Kao had kept on her phone, and he allegedly threatened to