Taichung denies oversight failures in baseball sexual assault caseBy Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNATaichung city councilors today criticized the city’s Education Bureau for failing to ascertain the number of victims and issue disciplinary action in a case of child sexual assault at a local elementary school. Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen speaks at the Taichung City Council today. The Democratic Progressive Party caucus in the Taichung City Council today demanded that the city government proactively expand investigations, hold officials accountable for failures in oversight and introduce systemic reforms to background checks in schools. The coach with a prior record of child sexual assault remained working in schools for six years, reflecting a systemic failure within the education administration, Taichung City Councilor Chou Yung-hong (周永鴻) said. Sung therefore served no time and was not placed on the list of sexual offenders by the Ministry of Education, court documents showed.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2026 10:22 UTC