and on the heart of a drunken woman lying unconscious on the floor of his apartment foyer. For that split-second gesture Chuang Chun-sheng, 45, was convicted of sexual harassment and sentenced to one month in prison Thursday. The sentence was commuted to a NT$30,000 fine.
Chuang lamented he was "a little bit too considerate." He found the woman on the floor on Nov. 7 last year when he returned home from a late night mahjong game.
"I thought she was dead," Chuang said. So he put two fingers before her nostrils to find out whether she was breathing. She was, so Chuang left the apartment building to buy a pack of cigarettes.
When he returned a few minutes later, Chuang found her still there. Thereupon he put his hand on her heart to find whether it was beating. It did. Then he went up to his flat.
"Only two seconds it took," Chuang said. An hour later, another apartment resident came home. He awoke the woman, who, still drunken, left the apartment house.
On the following morning when she was fully awake, the woman found her handbag was gone. She asked to view footage in the apartment monitor video and saw Chuang touch her heart.
Without a moment's hesitation, the woman initiated litigation against Chuang. She sued him for sexual harassment.
"I tried to have a settlement out of court," Chuang admitted. He offered NT$36,000 but she refused to accept. Well, Chuang said, he saved NT$6000. His considerateness is worth just that much.
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