Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-08
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
A judge on Thursday gave a lenient sentence to a Korean woman who confessed to stealing a wallet 
from an Indonesian female tourist at Shifen Old Street and kept pleading for leniency as she has a 70-year-old mother and a 3-year-old daughter who is looking for her every day.
Shifen, a village along the Pingxi railway line in Pingxi Township, New Taipei City, is a hot spot for foreign tourists and well known for flying lanterns.
The Indonesian woman was picking out a flying lantern on the street of Shifen around 1 p.m. on July 10 when her wallet was nabbed. After reviewing surveillance camera footage, police found two males unzipping the backpack of the Indonesian while she was paying for her purchase. After the backpack was unzipped, the Korean woman surnamed Pak, 43, with her right hand holding a bonnet for cover, sneaked her left hand into the backpack and took out a black wallet, which contained NT$20,000 in cash, identity cards, and credit cards.
Pak got a share of NT$2,000 from the stolen money, and encouraged by the success, she and three men went back to Shifen Old Street the next day, to look for a next target. [FULL STORY]
