Childhood domestic violence caused a girl to have a "dual personality" and regressed to the age of 6. Her friend was accused of taking advantage of the opportunity to sexually assault her and was found not guilty.

Xiao Ru (pseudonym), a 45-year-old female securities salesperson, suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) due to childhood shadow, resulting in a dual personality. Her words and actions sometimes regress involuntarily like a 6-year-old girl. Thirteen years ago, she told a male client named Qiu, who she regarded as her brother, about this. However, Qiu was accused of taking advantage of Xiao Ru's In 2018, the Taipei District Court of first instance sentenced Qiu to 4 years and six months in prison for having sex while taking advantage of the situation. The case was tried several times by the High Court, but the Supreme Court reversed and remanded the case. Today, the High Court of the fourth instance found that it was impossible to prove that Xiao Ru had a 6-year-old personality when the two parties had sexual relations, and changed the verdict to confirm that Qiu was not guilty.

As a child, Xiao Ru witnessed her aunt who suffered from mental illness being imprisoned in an iron cage. The scene of her struggling and roaring in pain was vivid and deeply ingrained in her mind. Coupled with her father's domestic violence against her, she suffered from mental illness and had to go to the hospital for many years. In 2012, she was diagnosed with major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has degenerative symptoms of young children, and her mental state often deteriorates to that of a 6-year-old girl.

Xiaoru worked for a securities company in Taipei since 2011 when he was 30 years old, and recruited Qiu Nan as a securities client. The two often chatted through MSN and SKYPE, and they called each other brother and sister. The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office alleged that Qiu Nan learned about Xiao Ru's mental condition during a chat, and after inviting Xiao Ru to meet and have dinner at Taipei 101 Building at noon on June 13, 2013, he took her back to the company conference room where he worked. On the evening of the same day, when he saw Xiao Ru regressing into the mental state of a 6-year-old girl and could not resist, he forcibly sexually assaulted her.

Afterwards, Xiao Ru went to a psychological consultation and discovered footage of her sexual assault and called the police. During the court hearing, Qiu Nan admitted that he knew about Xiaoru's illness, but denied sexual assault. He argued that Xiaoru was in poor mental condition and always believed that he had been sexually assaulted. He even had the illusion that "she was pregnant with a child, but the child died."

The Taipei District Court of first instance sentenced Qiu Nan to four years and six months in prison for taking advantage of opportunities for sexual intercourse. The prosecutor appealed, arguing that he should be punished as "committing forced sexual intercourse on a person with a mental disorder" and his sentence should be increased.

The case was ruled by the High Court four times, and the verdict was changed to not guilty. However, the case was revoked and sent back by the Supreme Court four times, and it entered the fourth trial. The High Court announced its verdict today. The collegial panel quoted the psychiatric evaluations of previous trials and the testimonies of psychological counselors, doctors and others. It believed that Xiaoru could still "question questions" in the "subpersonality" state of a little girl. Answer A" in response to questions, be able to fully describe what happened, and show good memory and expression skills externally. When describing sexual assault incidents, the contents described in the "main personality" and "sub-personality" states are basically the same, and there is no memory blank phenomenon commonly seen in patients with dissociative personality.

The High Court also pointed out that during the mental evaluation of Xiao Ru, Xiao Ru's mental state had gone through many twists and turns and events, and it was impossible to determine that she was in a state of dissociation and degeneration into a child at the time of the crime. It was also difficult to determine that when the two had sexual intercourse, Qiu Nan subjectively knew that Xiao Ru was in a state of dissociation, or took advantage of her. It could be as small as having a mental illness, seizing the opportunity to have sex when she couldn't resist the opportunity, or deliberately stimulating her to produce a state of dissociation, suppressing her sexual autonomy and then forcing her to have sex. The evidence was insufficient, so the first-instance verdict was revoked and Qiu Nan was acquitted. According to the Criminal Expedited Trial Law, no appeal is allowed, and the entire case was confirmed.