Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Mediumship, divination, and fortune-telling Taichung, Taiwan · 2025

Taiwan: temple master's sentence increased to 16 years for rapes framed as a fate-changing ritual

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Appellate history

2025-12-13

Sentence increased from 10 to 16 years.

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Convicted

Authority role

temple master claiming spiritual succession from his predecessor

Organization

Xifang Rulai Temple

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The complainants came to the temple for religious guidance and fate correction, and the defendant's claimed spiritual succession is what let him present sexual acts as the ritual remedy they had sought.

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Proceedings

2025-12-13 · conviction; sentence increased on appeal

Taichung District Court; Taiwan High Court (Taichung branch). A temple operator surnamed Liu, who took over his late mother's Xifang Rulai Temple and claimed spiritual succession, was convicted of repeatedly raping female devotees over some fifteen years — at least 58 documented instances against five women in the criminal case — coercing them by presenting sex as a 'fate-changing' ritual and having victims sign coerced consent documents. The district court imposed 10 years; the appellate court found that too lenient and increased it to 16 years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

sex presented as a 'fate-changing' ritual
coerced written 'consent' documents

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national newspaper court reporting appellate disposition '台中神棍誆「嘿咻改命」15年性侵5女58次二審加重判刑16年', ETtoday (Taiwan), 13 Dec. 2025.: Taiwanese outlet reporting the appellate court's increase of the sentence to 16 years and the fate-changing ritual used to coerce the complainants.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.ettoday.net/news/20251213/3083570.htm Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition. SHA-256 6f408b0bf942d244e69763679955a5e476085c6cab9f766a4f7ed52985a8c2a1
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