Serial rapist-turned-monk assaults mentally disabled woman in Taiwan, previously escaped death penalty for murder

Serial rapist in Taiwan sentenced to 13 years in jail for assaulting mentally disabled woman

A 78-year-old man was sentenced to 13 years in prison after raping a mentally disabled woman in Taiwan.

According to ETtoday, the man surnamed Huang, was a serial sexual assault perpetrator who had previously sexually assaulted seven other women.

This is Huang’s fourth conviction to date. He was previously handed jail terms on three separate occasions from the 1970s to 1990s for charges relating to sexual assault.

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Huang was initially sentenced to nine years in jail after he sexually assaulted four junior high school girls and one woman between 1972 and 1973.

After serving less than one-third of his sentence, he was released on parole.

He did not appear to have turned a new leaf, however.

Sometime after his release, he saw a 14-year-old girl, surnamed Zhong, riding a bicycle on her way home.

Huang stopped the girl in her tracks by starting a conversation and lured her to a small room he was renting at that time.

There, he sexually assaulted her, later strangling her when she tried to resist his attack. Huang violently strangled the victim, to the point of deforming her throat, which ultimately led to the victim’s death by suffocation.

Using a flower towel and nylon rope, he subsequently tied Zhong’s body, contorting her into the shape of a fetus.

Afterwards, he wrapped her lifeless body in a raincoat and dumped it in a reservoir.

Huang’s vile assault on the 14-year-old sparked a huge public outcry at that time. He was even sentenced to death in the first and second trials of the court case.

However, the Supreme Court later revoked the death penalty and handed him a life sentence instead.

Following Taiwan’s Criminal Commutation Act 1988, the serial sexual assault perpetrator was released the same year after his sentence was reduced to ten years.

Sentenced to 6 years in jail after sexually assaulting minor

Despite two convictions and a total of nearly 13 years behind bars, Huang still did not appear to have repented from his crimes.

While at a KTV lounge in 1993, he sexually assaulted a girl, who was under the age of sixteen, when she was intoxicated.

Following the crime, he was sentenced to another six years in prison and was released on parole in 2004.

Becomes a monk & assaults mentally disabled woman

With three sexual assault convictions on his record, Huang proceeded to change his name and became a monk in hopes of starting anew.

He served as the abbot of a Zen temple in southern Taiwan. There, he lived next to a woman with a mental disability, given the pseudonym ‘Xiaohua’.

When Xiaohua’s mother was out of town, Huang broke into her house with a wine bottle.

He then threatened the mentally disabled woman, telling her, “I want you to die”.

Afterwards, he sexually assaulted her and paid her NT$1000 (S$41).

Upon her mother’s return, Xiaohua handed her mother the money and told her: “Brother Zhu gave me the money for sexual assault.”

Realising what happened, the mother lodged a police report.

During his trial, the 78-year-old argued that he had lost his sexual desire due to his old age.

“I don’t want to do that shameful thing,” he said.

Nevertheless, the judge dismissed his appeal and sentenced him to 13 years in jail.

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