Probe finds university failed sexual harassment victims

A Control Yuan investigation has found that National Taiwan University (NTU) failed to protect students from sexual harassment and that some students who reported sexual harassment were adversely affected as a result, writes Jono Thomson for Taiwan News.

The Control Yuan, the Taiwan government’s auditing body, issued the investigation results via press release on Thursday 11 July, per CAN. Control Yuan members Wang Yu-ling, Chi Hui-jung, and Lin Yu-jung carried out the investigation, saying in the press release that there have been many reported incidents of sexual harassment at NTU. They said they included an associate professor suspected of sexually harassing multiple students and a dormitory supervisor suspected of sexually harassing one student.

The investigation found that police charged an NTU dormitory supervisor suspected of sexually assaulting a student in September 2022. However, the report noted NTU had been aware of a separate sexual harassment allegation involving the same supervisor and student for one month by the time charges were filed. NTU also failed to put in place measures that would reduce the chances of contact between the supervisor and the student, handling the incident with insufficient speed and care, the investigation found.
Full report on the Taiwan News site