Taipei, May 18 CNA Harsh punishment, such as sentences without any chance for parole, should be imposed on sex offenders of young victims to reduce recidivism, a lawmaker said Tuesday in calling for legislation similar to "Jessica's Law" in the U. Kuomintang KMT lawmaker Yang Li-huan, a member of the Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee, said the rights of minor victims are often ignored because existing law is too lenient on the perpetrators. Yang proposed a draft amendment to the Sexual Assault Prevention Act that would automatically sentence adults found guilty of molesting or assaulting minors under the age 12 to 20 years in prison with no chance of parole. Her proposal is patterned after a Florida statute known as "Jessica's Law, " which mandates a minimum sentence of 25 years with no chance of parole and life-long electronic monitoring for adults convicted of sexual offenses against children under 12 years old. Harsher punishment must be imposed on sex offenders or else it would give the wrong impression that the consequence for molesting our children is no more than a slap on the wrist, " Yang said. The lawmaker also called for an establishment of an open-access database containing information on pedophiles. The data would be updated twice a year and contain information going back 10 years. Ex-convicts would also have to register with a government agency and be electronically monitored so their whereabouts could be known at all times. According to Child Welfare League Foundation office director Cheng Min-ching, eight to 10 percent of sexual battery cases in Taiwan involve minors under About 50 percent of the perpetrators are family members and only 10 percent are strangers, she said, and the number of cases is increasing by at least 1, annually.
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When a man surnamed Chen discovered that his wife, surnamed Chang, was having an affair with a foreign national surnamed James, he hired private investigators to catch them having sex. A judge later found the pair guilty of adultery and sentenced them to four months in prison, and ordered the foreign national to be deported. Like anywhere, adultery is a daily occurrence in Taiwan, and rarely a day passes when an adulterous couple are not sentenced to jail time. They are, however, stuck with a criminal record. Taiwan is the only developed nation in the world with such a law South Korea struck down its adultery law in And with divorce on the rise, marriages in decline, hostess bars dotting the cityscape and the ubiquitous availability of hook-up apps, it may seem that the continued criminalization of adultery might be more necessary than ever before. A poll showed that The Council of Grand Justices will hold a public hearing today to hear opinions about whether the law should be scrapped.
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In Taiwan, there are 1. The worldwide ratio is 1. For what it's worth, the gap is worse in China and India, despite it being illegal to reveal the sex of the fetus. And the Taiwanese government wants to do something about it. Deputy Health Minister Chiang Hung-che has announced he will investigate hospitals, on penalty of losing their license. It's believed that up to 3, female fetuses were aborted. In one clinic, in New Taipei city, ten out of eleven babies born were male. In another hospital, nine out of ten were male.
Article Content. Part 1 General Provisions. A conduct is punishable only when expressly so provided by the law at the time of its commission. This also applies to a rehabilitative measure which puts restrictions on personal freedom. When the law is amended after the commission of an offense, the law in force of its commission shall apply; provided that when the amended law is favorable to the offender, the most favorable law shall apply. For punishment made as a rehabilitative measure that does not involve confiscation or restrictions on personal freedom, the law in force at the time of judgment shall apply. When a judgment has been finalized with a punishment or a rehabilitative measure but not yet executed or before the end of execution, and the law is amended to a state with no punishment or rehabilitative measure for the offense, the punishment or the rehabilitative measure shall be remitted. This Code shall apply to an offense committed within the territory of the Republic of China. An offense committed on board a vessel or aircraft of the Republic of China outside the territory of the Republic of China shall be considered an offense committed within the territory of the Republic of China. Where either the conduct or the result of an offense takes place within the territory of the Republic of China, the offense shall be considered as committed within the territory of the Republic of China.
