Shen Boyang's accusation of child abuse has been distorted. Jiang Wanan Bidding: Is it difficult to change the story and apologize quickly?

The Taipei mayoral election continues to stir up the controversy over child abuse. Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party today hit back at Mayor Chiang Wanan and asked him to apologize for saying that "child abuse is the highest among the six cities in Taipei." He emphasized that his remarks were distorted and asked, "He should be the one to apologize for child abuse cases! How did it become me?" He also questioned the kindergarten recommended by Chiang Wanan and the international kindergarten Charis. There have been child abuse cases one after another. What legal actions has the city government taken? Chiang Kai-shek criticized Shen Boyang for changing his position from "leading among the six capitals" to "extraordinarily many", but was still unable to provide comparative data and demanded an apology.

During an interview at noon, Shen Boyang said that the original discussion was about "child abuse outside the home" in which children were mistreated after being sent to kindergartens and public institutions, and not the "child abuse at home" caused by parents' violence that the city government responded to. The two are fundamentally different. He pointed out that previous cases such as Penomida and Charis reflected systemic problems, but he did not have complete data from the city government and could not confirm which link the problem was. Therefore, he advocated proposing a comprehensive plan and further reviewed it after obtaining the data. He criticized the relevant statements for being maliciously edited.

Shen Boyang also pointed out that there are currently more than 110 victims of child abuse outside the home in Taipei City, and more than 600 cases of improper treatment. Frontline social workers are faced with an overload of cases and insufficient manpower. Kindergarten and public care teachers also have work difficulties. These should be taken seriously. He also questioned that there were many cases of child abuse in the kindergarten recommended by Jiang Wanan, and there were even Jiang's salon photos and autographs in Xia Lisi's kindergarten. Has the city government taken active legal action?

In this regard, Yang Peixi, spokesman for Chiang Wanan's campaign office, said in the afternoon that Shen Boyang previously said that child abuse in Taipei City "ranked first among the six cities", but now he has changed his words "extremely frequently", but has never provided a basis for comparison. "The change of words is very fast, how difficult is it to apologize?"

In response to Shen Boyang's repeated claim that the bid only talks about child abuse at home, Yang Peixuan said that the bid has already submitted statistics from the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The total number of abusers at home and outside the home, Taipei City from 2023 to 2025 and the first half of 2026. The non-six cities have the most; in terms of statistics on child abuse types and mistreatment from 2023 to 2025, Taipei is also not the first among the six cities. "The information has been submitted for a long time, and Shen Boyang is still repeating the accusation. Did he not read it, or is he deliberately ignoring it?"

Yang Peixuan believes that as a legislator, Shen Boyang could have used his authority to request information and investigate systemic problems, but now he has avoided responsibility by saying "wait until I become mayor."