Taiwan News: Court Rejects Teacher's Claim of Lost Reputation

  In my blog post of May 1, 2011 (News Flash! Court Decision Leaked to Taiwan's Press With Inaccurate Information), I wrote about the Taiwan media's biased and inaccurate reporting of Alice Yang & the nursing university's false accusation included in stories about the Taipei district court's decision in my lawsuit against them. 
  There were stories in several Chinese-language tabloids and one that I found in the English-language China Post newspaper:

Updated Friday, April 29, 2011 11:49 pm TWN, The China Post news staff

Court rejects teacher's claim of lost reputation

Taipei District Court has rejected the claim filed by a foreign teacher of a university in Taipei for reputation damage. The teacher was fired because of sexual harassment allegation.

The teacher filed a lawsuit against the school for the harassment accusation with a claim totaling over NT$700,000, including one-year salary and NT$100,000 moral damage compensation. In addition, he demanded that the university publish an apology for its layoff decision.

He said that the sexual harassment charge was groundless as the girl who accused him neither screamed nor reported his move to the police.

The decision of his dismissal and disclosure of the grievance case to the teacher grievances committee were not appropriate, he added.

The girl was said to have felt “disturbed and afraid” by the teacher's inappropriate conduct. She first brought up her experience to counselor in the campus. The director of her department later reported the case to the teacher grievances committee, which decided that the teacher had to go.

According to the court ruling released yesterday, several witnesses saw the teacher embrace the female student's waist and whisper in her ear in a school event. The teacher lost his case because the decision of the teacher grievances committee was valid and the school disclosure of the harassment investigation did not break the law.

The teacher can file an appeal against the ruling, said the court. 

(I attempted to post this response to the story on the Taipei Times website, but mysteriously and inexplicably the paper refused to publish it. Another glaring example of how Taiwan’s media + government has increasingly been controlling news and stifling the truth and the public’s right to dispute inaccuracies and fabrications in news stories.)  

  I am the American teacher featured in this poorly written and inaccurate story.

  As one example of your inaccurate information, there were not "several" witnesses who saw me touch anyone. Instead, there were 5 witnesses who saw NOTHING happen and 1 so-called 'witness' who changed the time and place multiple times in a perjurous attempt to help the school and the accuser.

  If you want to get your facts straight and write a real, well-written story, please contact me at jugger3naut@live.com


  You can read more about my thoughts about the China Post story and the false accusation in my May 1, 2011 blog entry. In reviewing the post, I found that almost all the links I included to stories in Taiwan's Chinese-language media were expired. I'll be posting the stories instead of just the links in my next post.