Outrage over coach’s jail sentence for underage sexABUSE: The victim testified that when abroad, her coach would criticize any bad performances and ‘punish her’ by forcing her to have sex with him in his hotel room A prominent archery coach surnamed Ni (倪) yesterday was handed a two-year, nine-month prison sentence for abusing his authority and having sex with an underage girl in his charge in a second ruling by the High Court. The court filing said that Ni pressured the victim to have sex when she was a junior-high student and an aspiring archer. The affair continued until she had enrolled in university. The Hsinchu District Court in the first ruling last year had convicted Ni on eight counts of abusing his authority and sexual misconduct against the victim, who was identified as “Siao Ting (小婷)” toBy Yang Kuo-wen and Jason Pan

Source: Taipei Times July 25, 2023 20:43 UTC