Taiwan in Time: Outlawing spousal abuse : comparemela.com

<strong>June 20 to June 26</strong>
After enduring nearly a decade of abuse, 22-year-old Teng Ju-wen (鄧如雯) killed her husband Lin A-chi (林阿棋) during his sleep in October 1993. Teng was forced to marry Lin after he raped her when she was 13, and over the years he not only regularly beat her, but also terrorized her family and at one point stuck the heads of their two sons into a running washing machine during a fit of anger.
Teng ran away for a few months after a particularly nasty incident, but returned after Lin smashed up her parents house and threatened

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