The problems with the legal systems of statutory period of rape here! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The gymnastic coach, Liang had been accused of raping his four female students long-term, the Kaohsiung District Court believed, that for most of the counts, the period of statute of limitation had passed, the charges are either, dropped or the verdict of “not guilty” was given to the counts; the attorney, Lin believed that the not-guilty and the not-prosecutable counts can still be appealed on the civil front, but, for most of these cases that occurred over a decade ago, it’d gone past the two years’ statute of limitation on the civil fronts, if the attorney of the perpetrator fought the appeal, it would be hard for the victim to get the justices they deserved. The Kaohsiung D.A.’s Office stated, that they’re discussing if they are to pursue the charges, that the victims can all ask for the appeals too.
The accusations of Liang’s rape, sexual molestation charges mostly occurred between 1999 and 2006, and it wasn’t until February of 2018, did one female victim work up her courage to accuse him, and the judge believed, that the power rape charges had surpassed the statutory period.
“The young children can’t find the help in the time, and afterwards, justice is, rarely, served for them!”, the secretary of the Modern Women’s Foundation, Wu told, that the perpetrator had threatened their children victims long term, the behaviors were malicious as they were, and caused the victims to suffer from the posttraumatic stress symptoms, that the sentencing should consider the lengthiness of the crimes, as well as the depth of the effects of the crimes on the victims’ lives.
Lin said, that if the victim filed for the civil suits as the criminal cases were being tried, and even if they’d claimed it before the verdicts of the first trial in the criminal case, the civil claims are more than likely to get tossed, because the criminal case hadn’t been confirmed formally yet; and if the victims filed for the independent civil claims, the statutory period is only within two years of the criminal case being tried, and, based off of this particular case, the statutory period had been way past gone, and the attorney of the defendant can fight it in court.
This case is a sexual assault, the victims can file for the compensations of the crimes committed against them, but based off of the protective laws of the victims, the victims would have to apply for it within two years of being offended, and the criminal charges of more than five years can’t qualify, and it would be quite difficult for the victims to get the compensations.
And so, the laws still, don’t do enough for these victims, because of the kinds of crimes committed, and how young most of these, victims were when the crimes happened, none of them dared to tell about it, until they’re, adults, and by the time they are able to make their voices heard, it’s, way PAST the period of statute of limitation, and, the court system does NOT work in the victims’ favors here at all!