
Repeat stalker of underaged girls assaults elders protecting latest target
A 41-year-old man surnamed Yu, who was only released from prison recently will likely go back behind bars again. On Tuesday afternoon, Yu stalked an 18-year-old high school girl on her way home in Luzhou, New Taipei. The girl noticed that she was being followed, so she called her 72-year-old grandmother for help. When the grandma arrived and confronted Yu, he punched the elderly woman hard, bruising her face and her eyes, breaking her nose and causing her liver to rupture in the process. Shortly afterward, the local 69-year-old borough chief arrived on the scene, and he too was attacked by the man.
The police arrive on the scene, where a man in short sleeves sits lazily on the roadside. Earlier, he stalked a high school girl and beat up her 72-year-old grandma. The borough chief, who arrived shortly afterwards to stop him also got beaten.
Local residents helped the police restrain the suspect and put him in handcuffs.
More shockingly, the police found that he was carrying a craft knife.
Eyewitness
Commenting on incident
It looked pretty serious. The grandma was on the ground and had blood all over her body. The borough chief was punched in the eye and had to be sent to the hospital.
The footage caught on camera just minutes before the police arrived shows that the 41-year-old man, surnamed Yu, relentlessly followed the teenage girl who had just gotten off school. The girl can be seen trying to shake him off, but Yu persisted. She later called her 72-year-old grandma for help. The grandma came down from their home to protect her and scolded the man, and that’s when he started hitting the grandma, who was left with bruises on the face, trauma on her eyes, a broken nose bridge and liver rupture. The 69-year-old borough chief, who intervened later, was left with a laceration on the right eyelid and a damaged nasolacrimal duct.
Kuo Teng-fang
Xinyi Borough Chief
I asked him why he’d hit the grandma, and he landed me with punches. I didn’t have time to hide. He punched me in the eye. The injury probably won’t fully recover. We’ll see in six months.
The borough chief sounds pretty distraught about the attack. He had to get an emergency operation for the injury. It’s also not the first time for Yu to commit such a crime.
Lin Pi-lien
Spouse of borough chief
Two years ago, he targeted two young girls, who were in middle school at the time. All of us worked together to capture him over there on Xinyi Road. He was only recently released from prison, but he started stalking young girls again. He’d sometimes grope them in the elevator. People would call his mother to complain, but she’d only say that there’s nothing she can do and that it’s just the way he is.
Yu was previously jailed for stalking, and now he’s even assaulted elders such as the grandma and the local borough chief, making him a suspect of aggravated assault and stalking. In terms of civil law, he may also have to compensate the victims’ medical costs.
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2026-04-29