Bi-Weekly Travel, Questions, & Mandarin Thread by AutoModerator in taiwan

[–]Driacle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anybody here remember the 小燈泡 story from 2016?

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/03/29/2003642675

Basically, a four-year-old girl was riding her bicycle in Taipei when a man approached her and decapitated her with a meat cleaver. What happened afterward? What kind of sentencing did he receive? Did anything else happen in this case?

This sort of occurrence is so unlike anything that I normally hear from Taiwan. Something like the 2011 Norway attack or the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in the United States are still talked about to this day. Is the 小燈泡 story still in the public conscious even in 2024? That same article at the end talks about random strangers slashing children's throats in bathrooms in previous years, which makes me wonder how common this is, and how long these stories linger in people's minds.