About 1,350 males in Taiwan reported being victims of sexual assault last year, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed.
Concern over sexual assault targeting males were raised last week when Tainan City Council members demanded a judicial investigation into accusations that city government deputy spokesman Yi Chun-hung (易俊宏) allegedly groped eight teenage boys and girls over a seven-year period.
Ministry data showed that assault cases involving male complainants averaged from 1,159 to 1,773 between 2016 and 2020, and numbered 1,350 last year.
About 80 percent of the cases were boys aged 12 to 18.
Traditional thinking leads people to neglect that men
Councilors questioned over lost funds
PUBLIC SUBSIDIES: Taipei City Councilor Pan Hwai-tzong was released after posting NT$2 million bail, while New Taipei City Councilor Tseng Huan-chia was detained
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Judicial investigators yesterday questioned Taipei City Councilor Pan Hwai-tzong (潘懷宗) of the New Party and New Taipei City Councilor Tseng Huan-chia (曾煥嘉) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on allegations of embezzling public funds allocated to pay for their office assistants’ salaries.
A bail court released Pan on NT$2 million (US$70,472) bail, while his office chief, Chen Yu-tai (陳玉臺), was released after posting NT$1.5 million bail.
Tseng was detained following questioning.