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KAOHSIUNG — A Kaohsiung woman was given a one-year prison sentence, along with 90 days of detention for separate offenses, after a court found her guilty of a series of criminal actions linked to harassment of her former boyfriend, China Times reported.
The Kaohsiung District Court (高雄地方法院) found the woman guilty of eight offenses, including violations of the Personal Data Protection Act (個人資料保護法), intimidation, violating a protection order, defamation, document forgery-related offenses, and computer-related offenses.
The case followed the breakdown of a relationship between the woman and her former boyfriend, both of whom were identified by pseudonyms in the report.
The court said the woman sent 47 letters to addresses near the man’s home, accusing him of private misconduct and including his photo, phone number, and address. Prosecutors said she used another person’s name on the envelopes, making the letters appear to come from someone else.
The court also found that she posted the man’s personal information on a Facebook group, along with claims about their relationship. Judges said the dispute was a private matter and not an issue of public interest.
The woman was also found to have sent threatening messages to the man through Messenger, including threats involving his family members.
In another part of the case, the court found that she accessed the man’s PChome shopping account without permission and used a buy-now-pay-later service to order items including cat litter, cat supplies, shoes, and sanitary products, without paying.
After the Kaohsiung Juvenile and Family Court (高雄少年及家事法院) issued a protection order barring her from contacting or harassing the man and his family, the woman continued posting flyers near his home and made 13 calls and text messages in one day, the court said.
The woman denied the allegations in court, but judges cited envelope records, surveillance footage, account data, shopping records, call records, and witness testimony in finding her guilty.
The ruling can be appealed.
