Fei Fei Wang described her husband, Professor Ping-Hsing Ku(Taiwan Elder Abuse), in the following manner in her 2012 guardianship petition to the Taipei courts

 

“All of Ping-Hsing’s property in Taiwan is under his personal name. His wife and children never dared to question him. He is short-tempered, selfish and irresponsible. Now that he is old and retired, there is no one in Taiwan who is dependable and capable of taking care of him. This is rather pitiful!”  

The Taipei courts granted guardianship to Fei Fei Wang. Wang was correct. There was nobody else in Taiwan to take care of him since his children and siblings are all Americans who live in the United States. After getting guardianship, Wang and Captain Ku partially succeeded in transferring Professor Ku’s Taiwan assets to the United States. Wang attempted to sell a condo he owned in Taiwan, and she needed the judge’s permission. The judge didn’t allow the sale since Wang misrepresented her husband’s financial position. She claimed she needed the money to pay for her husband’s care, which the judge confirmed was inaccurate, and the judge in Taiwan admonished Wang in his written opinion. 

 

After Wang and Captain Ku stole as much as they could from Professor Ku, they then shipped Professor Ku to live in a nursing home in Taipei. They left him there alone while his children and siblings lived in the US. The first nursing home he lived in didn’t like that Professor Ku could walk, so they tied him into a chair for 8 hours per day. Once he ultimately lost the ability to walk, which isn’t surprising considering he was tied to a chair for most of the day, the nursing home told Wang to transfer him elsewhere.  

They forced Wang to return to Taiwan to deal with Professor Ku’s living arrangements, and in her haste, she found another nursing home that was running more like a prison. The Aiai Nursing Home in Taipei is an incompetent operation where Professor Ku gets further abused in solitude. He has suffered from 5 hospitalizations in the past four years because of pneumonia and urinary tract infections---all of which were caused by the force-feeding and the poor hygiene practices at Aiai Nursing Home. 

Wang would never return to Taipei to be with her husband whenever her Professor Ku fell seriously ill. Instead, Professor Ku’s daughter and my wife, Pei-Lan Ku, took on that responsibility to make sure Professor Ku was never alone during his worst moments. Pei-Lan and I made considerable efforts to split our time between New York City and Taipei over the past several years so we both could spend time with our respective aging fathers.

Wang and Captain Ku got away with their evil for a while without personal consequence, but Professor Ku's torture suffered at Aiai Nursing Home proved to be too much for Pei-Lan. She suffered from panic attacks and vertigo due to the stress. Abusers impact the lives of those who care about the victim. Pei-Lan was forced to take more drastic action to protect her father.