SERIOUS BREACH: Originally slated for a transfer to Penghu, a public outcry led the justice ministry to rethink Lin Chun-yu’s punishment for ‘interrogating’ preschoolers
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 02, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Hualien County prosecutor Lin Chun-yu (林俊佑) has been suspended for alleged abuse
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lee Li-feng holds up a photograph while commenting on Hualien County prosecutor Lin Chun-yu’s actions at a news conference in Taipei on Thursday last week. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
of authority and his case has been forwarded to the Control Yuan, which is to decide whether to start impeachment proceedings, the Ministry of Justice said yesterday.
Media reports last week said that Lin, claiming that his daughter had been bullied, took two senior police officials to a Hualien City kindergarten on June 21 and June 28, where surveillance footage showed him interrogating children aged two to four.
The footage showed Lin ordering teachers to stand aside as he bellowed and threatened the children in an attempt to find out who had been bullying his daughter.
Some toddlers reportedly urinated on the spot.
The ministry’s Personnel Review Committee yesterday convened a meeting to discuss Lin’s case and decided to suspend him for a serious breach of conduct, effective immediately. [FULL STORY]
