[WATCH] Captured Voyeur Begs for Forgiveness
For
the longest time, groping and voyeurism were victimless crimes in China
for the simple reason that nobody wanted to be known as a victim.
However, the days of "victim shaming" in China may have come to an end.
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This past Monday, a woman named Xiao He (a
pseudonym) was having lunch at a 4th-floor noodle restaurant at Joy
City Mall in Xidan when she saw a man sitting across from her acting
suspiciously. Instead of using it in a normal fashion, Xiao He saw the
man nonchanlantly hold his phone underneath the table while pointing it
towards her.
Suspicious
that the man was attempting to take photographs of her underneath her
dress, Xiao He made a recording of the man with her own phone (see video
below). Although this seemed to temporarily stop the man, he wasn't
deterred for long.
"At first I thought I had misjudged him, but when he peeped at me, the look in his eyes scared me," Xiao He told the Evening Law Report. "That's when I realized I wasn't wrong about him."
At first I thought I had misjudged him, but when he peeped at me, the look in his eyes scared me.
Afraid
for her personal safety, Xiao He left the restaurant and called a male
friend for help. When he arrived, Xiao He and her friend located the
suspicious man on the first floor of the mall, at which time they
reported him to the police for public voyeurism.
Faced with the
seriousness of his acts, the man not only fully confessed to police, but
also got down on his knees and kowtowed for forgiveness when he was
brought in to the police station.
As Kanfa News confirms,
the unidentified man has been detained by police for "invasion of
privacy." It's not clear if his detention is for a criminal arrest or
for an administrative detention, a punishment Chinese PSB departments
can dispense without the need of a trial.
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Monday's humiliating ordeal for its perpetrator comes after a Beijing woman made national headlines
for publicly confronting a subway groper. Seen grabbing her molester by
the lapel and berating him in front of a train full of commuters, the
woman was labeled a "hero" for her courage.
Unfortunately,
standing up to sexual predators has proven to be dangerous, especially
when a perpetrator's sense of "face" is threatened. Last July, a man
accused of groping a woman on a Beijing bus turned on his victim, slashing her back and throat with a knife.
As
encouraging as it is that Chinese society is ready to put these gropers
and voyeurs in their place, it seems that Chinese media retains a
puritanical view of the fairer sex. Chinese news reports labelled Xiao
He a "girl" and even went so far as to describe the clothes she was
wearing at the time of the incident.
Images: BJ News (bj.news.163.com), Miaopai.com
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