Justices urged to keep forced treatment of molestersBy Chen Yun and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerVictims’ rights groups and lawmakers yesterday urged the Council of Grand Justices to uphold the involuntary psychiatric treatment of sex offenders as the council is to hand down a ruling on the practice today. After completing his sentence, Lu was involuntarily committed to psychiatric treatment for an additional nine years until the Taiwan High Court’s Taichung branch ordered his release on Sept. 11. Sex offenders have a high recidivism rate and releasing them into society infringes on the public’s right to freedom from fear, she said. “The personal freedoms of convicted sex offenders should not be protected at the expense of the victims and the rights of the public,” she said. Measures being deliberated by officials include removing the maximum involuntary treatment of five years for the criminally insane, and mandating GPS ankle monitors and other surveillance devices for released sex offenders, he said.

Source: Taipei Times December 30, 2020 15:56 UTC