"나영이 사건" has attracted the ire of netizens in Korea, and I expect it to become bigger news soon. A 57-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years for anally raping a child---9-year-old Korean age---on the way to school last year, and then using a plunger to remove the evidence, thereby destroying her intestines and anus. The man protested the ruling, saying he was drunk.
Netizens have taken their anger to websites like Agora and those for the National Assembly and the Ministry of Gender Equality (currently down because of heavy traffic). A Naver search for "나영이사건" brings up the Korean-language news stories.
The story came up on an episode of "쌈" on the 22nd, the same episode I wrote up in relation to "Safe Schools Korea" and the services they provide to screen foreign English teachers.
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That's horrible. Can intestines be replaced? What's the status of the girl?
12 years is too short.
Certainly shows that sex offenders exist in Korean society.
I wonder if the outcry will finally wake the legal people up to the fucking dumbass "but I was drunk" defence that gets everyone so much leniencey here.
hmmm, I don't get it, destroyed intestines means that you are dead.
We need those things.
You can live without your intestines, but it's very unpleasant and expensive.
Anyway, the Supreme Court has denied the appeal.
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=034&aid=0002096987
ROK Hound,
Unfortunately, the trial court only gave him 12 years because of his mental illness.
That's just sickening. It is beyond time for the public to demand that lenient judging in South Korea end. How many more times are going to read about judges making excuses for people who commit horrible crimes?
Unfortunately, "I was drunk" is a viable legal excuse in Korea. It has been used and reused, always getting the desired results.
For seven years I have heard how "Koreans love their children" more than people from "other countries," read that "Americans." Obviously, they love their alcohol more than they love their children.
My GF reports that he was a christian minister/pastor. It might be an urban legend but she said she was walking past his church and he asked her if she went to his church. She said no. He took her into his church and raped her.
It's a religion of peace 'n' love, you understand.
Can't find if he was a pastor, but the raping was done in a church in Ansan. Too bad they don't have any more details on where he might reside.
Nathan,
I have not seen them say anywhere that he was mentally ill. I recall them saying he was "mentally impaired" (ie. due to the alcohol), but not actually mentally imbalanced/ill as we would use the term.
Got a source?
Thanks for the kind words, Keith.
I'm glad to see something useful turned up on that Ssam report. Ironic that the email I got from the Safe Schools guy was to talk about problems foreigners present Korean children. It's true that there are problems with the way background checks are---or sometimes aren't---carried out, but we've seen plenty of examples that this isn't often a safe place for children.
This is so sick. Nothing is worse than a child abuser. They are the low of the low. The fact that some will try to sweep this under the rug makes it all the more sick.
I don't understand why the death penalty isn't used when there is irrefutible evidence of guilt.
If he was the pastor at the church, I hope the family sues the christ out of the church.
My wife just what the man actually did to the child, and with all of the washing he did all over her body, and the numerous other actions he did to her, it's clearly not the actions of a drunk man. He was apparently quite meticulous about removing his "DNA" from all multiple parts of her body, and even attempting to wipe down all of his fingerprints too.
Plain and simple, this man was not drunk. As my wife kept explaining what he did to the poor child, I felt like retching. 12 years is a walk in the park for what I would have had planned for him. And the nerve that he tried to appeal his sentence? I hope he gets repeatedly anally raped, every day for the rest of his life, and then have infections basically render his digestive system useless (which is what has happened to her).
I should stop because I am too angry to write more right now.
That first sentence was supposed to read "My wife just read to me what..."
I was too angry to even check what I posted...
No question that this was an abhorrent and disturbing crime, but I also find it abhorrent how some people are so happy in the knowledge that prisons are places where people are vulnerable to rape. There seems to be a perverse joy in it. "Oooh great - he's going to get raped every day! By big black men! Tee-hee! I hope they fuck him up! It's going to be great!"
Where the hell did this sick attitude come from? I know crimes against children are an emotive subject, but for pity's sake, stay on the side of the righteous.
Stevie Bee, you're absolutely right.
As far as the US goes, the state of our prisons ought to be a national embarrassment, as is using prison rape as a joke. Not sure you could get away with jokes about sticking a broom up a woman's vagina on prime time TV, but it's sure okay to say "don't drop the soap."
Word verification: swine
Stevie Bee, if you are commenting about my comment, I made absolutely no correlation between prison and being raped.
My wish for his punishment was in relation to what the man did to the child.
It matters not if this man is anally raped inside or outside prison, I just wish that he suffers it repeatedly.
Thanks for straightening that out, Ryan. Perhaps you might like to do the honours yourself?
This is absolutely sickening. My girlfriend just told me about the case. Apparently Korea doesn't have the death penalty. Maybe it should consider it. This "I was drunk" excuse is utter bullshit. And only 12 years? That judge should be fired. I sincerely hope this evil man gets bitch-raped like a stuck pig every day he is in jail.
http://pann.nate.com/b200303132
And PS, no he wasn't a pastor.
bingbing
Korea does have the death penalty although not for rape. Not many major nations do. I thought I read there are many on death row but they haven't actually executed anyone in a long time.
The Japanese method is somewhat "interesting" in that the person doesn't know his actual execution date. Just one night the executioner comes, takes you away, and gasses you. So all the prisoners on death row hear footsteps down the hall and they start worrying "oh oh, is it my time?"
PW
Is it just for murder?
This crime was worse.
The Japanese method seems harsh, but in Jo Du-sun's case, it would be appropriate.
Where I'm from, Australia, abolished the death penalty and, well, it's moot.
Whether he rots in jail or is executed doesn't worry me. Whether he sees the light of day and freedom again does.
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