According to Taiwan United News Network on January 4, He Jianzhong, the executive secretary of the psychological health center of the Gaoxiong City Health Bureau, was indicted by the prosecution for abusing his authority to access the Taiwan Social Security Network system and use official information to abduct and sexually assault underage girls. In response, Chen Guan‘an, the former director of the Kuomintang youth ministry, cited the number of victims of sexual assault in nearly 10 years and criticized that in the 10th year of the Democratic Progressive Party‘s rule, the Taiwan Social Security Network is getting more and more broken.
Involved Official He Jianzhong. Photograph: Taiwan United News Network.
Chen Guanan posted on Facebook on Tuesday that He Jianzhong, who was supposed to be a social security network official, had turned into a “sexual assault wolf” who sabotaged the social security network. “The He Jianzhong case is not just a simple crime. Behind it lurks layers of negligence by the Kaohsiung City Government.” More ironically, List of mayors of Kaohsiung Chen Qimei showed Lai Qingde that sexual violence prevention work, if not properly regulated, could cause greater harm after reporting.
Chen Guan‘an criticized that civil servants with public power could do whatever they wanted without any lockdown mechanism. Even after the incident, He Jianzhong‘s wife, who also worked in the Department of Health, secretly transmitted the progress of the girl’s report to He Jianzhong. Did the Kaohsiung City Government apologize for such a serious series of administrative oversight? Did Chen Qimei make a statement?
Chen Guan‘an said that what was even more frightening was that in the 10th year of the Democratic Progressive Party‘s rule, Taiwan‘s social safety net was getting more and more broken. In terms of the number of sexual assault victims, 2023 and 2024 were 5,630 and 5,566, respectively, the second highest in history since 2002; compared to 3,876 in 2015, the number of sexual assault victims grew 1.43 times in 10 years. Was Lai Qingde concerned about such a terrifying phenomenon? Did it improve? Clearly not.
According to previous media reports, a shocking sexual assault scandal occurred in Kaohsiung City. He Jianzhong, the executive secretary of the Mental Health Centre, who had been awarded the outstanding supervision of the “Strengthening Social Security Network”, was suspected of abusing his authority to log into the public service system, using the public service database as the so-called “Selection Concubine List”, “human flesh search” for a minor girl under his supervision and guidance, and seducing her out to carry out sexual assault. The Kaohsiung District Attorney‘s Office sued He Jianzhong on 2, requesting the court to sentence him to 10 years and 6 months.
The indictment revealed that He Jianzhong was the executive secretary of Lingya Branch of the Gaoxiong City Health Bureau Mental Health Center, responsible for promoting the management of cases promoting mental health, domestic violence, sexual assault, mental illness, and other cases. He was the highest-level supervisor of the Mental Health Center. The prosecution discovered that He Jianzhong had just passed an oral examination for his master’s thesis in crime prevention and control in July this year. The prosecution bitterly criticized He Jianzhong for knowing that he had broken the law and had no remorse.