Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/03/28
By: Lu Hsin-hui, Ku Chuan, Justin Su, Chen Chun-hua and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, March 28 (CNA) The brutal beheading of a 4-year-old girl in an apparent random
A 33-year-old man has been detained in connection with the gruesome killing of the girl as she and her mother were on their way to a subway station in Neihu District in northern Taipei late Monday morning.
The suspect grabbed the child from behind and decapitated her with a cleaver. The girl died on the spot, according to police.
The tragedy sparked a heated debate in the Internet community, with Lin Hsin-yi (林欣怡), the executive director of the Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, saying that she was “very, very, very sad” about the tragedy on a Facebook post.
She wrote that she really wanted to find a solution on how to stop such incidents. [FULL STORY]