Prosecutors today indicted a Taipei couple and their son for allegedly beating, drugging and sexually molesting an Indonesian caregiver in their home following a dispute in September.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office in the indictment said the female caregiver had been hired by a man surnamed Wu (吳) and his wife, surnamed Chou (周), to help care for Wu’s elderly mother.
Photo: Wu Sheng-ju, Taipei Times
Multiple news outlets reported that Wu is a self-identified gangster who previously served prison time for violent crimes.
According to the indictment, Wu and Chou had become unhappy with how the caregiver was doing her job, and on Sept. 6 began beating her inside their home.
After the beating, Wu molested the woman at knifepoint, and then threw her phone, smashing it against the ground, prosecutors said.
Wu and Chou then forced the caregiver to drink a beverage spiked with flunitrazepam — a sedative known for being used as a “date rape drug” — causing her to lose consciousness, at which point they left her in the care of their son, the indictment said.
After the caregiver’s friends reported her missing, officers from the Taipei Police Department’s Xinyi Precinct went to Wu’s home on Sept. 9, where they found her unconscious and with cuts and bruises all over her body.
Police arrested the couple’s son at the scene and summoned Wu and Chou for questioning. All three were later detained.
Following an investigation, Taipei prosecutors indicted the three suspects today on charges including deprivation of personal liberty with a deadly weapon, forcible indecency with a deadly weapon, property damage and compelling a person to take a Category 3 narcotic by force.
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