Updated Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:04 am TWN, The China Post news staff

Priest gets 5 years for sexual assault

TAOYUAN, Taiwan -- The Taiwan High Court yesterday convicted a Christian priest on sexual assault charges and sentenced him to five years in prison. But the priest, Tang Tai-sheng, from a church in Taoyuan, said he will appeal.

The high court upheld a guilty verdict previously handed down by a district court in Tang's case, but halved the original sentence of 10-year imprisonment.

The court ruled that Tang conducted a collective sex counseling program in his church in 1998, where he raped 13 followers.

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