South Korean police said Tuesday they have arrested a man accused of raping 125 women over the past nine years.
The 39-year-old delivery man, identified only by his family name Cha, is accused of some 200 rapes involving 125 women, some of whom were subjected to multiple assaults.
Police in Gyeonggi province surrounding Seoul said the offences took place between July 2000 and July 2009.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Police catch man who raped 125 women.
Perhaps someone else can tell me if we knew there was a serial rapist on the loose in Paju. From the AFP:
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That is testament to the ineffectiveness of police in Korea within the context of a chauvinistic society.
wow...
I'm not saying it's not true, but it seems almost impossible that one man could do that and not get caught.
Another article said that he's married...so over the past nine years this man was rapeing around one woman a month and no one noticed this? Not even his wife?
and about 75 of the women he subjected to multiple assults? So either some how he managed to come back to the scene of the crime 75 times with no one noticing and the women not locking their windows or whatever or he hung around and raped them a second time and no one heard anything.
I wonder if he is being scapegoated for some rapes he didnt commit or if a large number of people have been turning a blind eye for a long period of time. If guilty, he was just begging to be caught.
The police are surrounding Seoul? They've got you covered, come out with your hands up!
This was the talk of the office at our academy yesterday. Based on what our vice-director said, many of his victims were located in Uijeongbu (where I live and work) and nearby Yangju. The way he gained access to the women's homes is by looking for open doors on the veranda of apartments and then climbing up gas pipes.
While there are certainly examples of police incompetence in Korea, I'm not sure how many apartments have CCTV situated to cover the veranda. With that in mind, catching this criminal was probably more difficult than if he was always going in through the front door.
Our vice-director also mentioned that some of the multiple assaults came when he returned to the same apartment and raped a sister or cousin living in the same place -- not sure if this was misreported by our vice-director, by a news agency, or if different sources are interpreting "multiple" in more than one way.
And dammit, why does this have to be another example of bad news coming out of Uijeongbu / northern Gyeonggi-do?
125 women, 9 years, many multiple attacks, and nobody thought to report him or perhaps give a description? Get some DNA? This almost defies belief.
I'll bet he gets 5 years in jail. 3 years if he says sorry.
I'll take the over on 5 if we're betting ^^ and under on 20.
I will be surprised if he serves any jail time at all. I do not hold a great deal of faith in the male-dominated Korean courts. After all, didn't a judge give a mentally handicapped girl back to her abusers? All he has to do is say he was drunk, and that he is sorry, and he will be released home to assult and abuse his young daughter.
"Our vice-director also mentioned that some of the multiple assaults came when he returned to the same apartment and raped a sister or cousin living in the same place"
So after one person was raped in the appartment they didnt lock the doors, put bars on the windows, install an alarm system or anything?
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