According to police, Kim confessed that he was drunk when he entered the grounds of Usin Elementary School in Yeongdeungpo District on Monday. He wandered the hallways unnoticed for an hour with a box cutter blade, found Lee alone on the playground at 10 a.m., and threatened to “kill her if she screamed.” He took her to his house, which was approximately 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the school, where he raped her. He then fell asleep, he told the police, “because he felt good.”.
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An official from the hospital said she “underwent a six-hour surgery due to severe harm and would need at least six months’ treatment to recover.”In a very uncommon move in South Korea, the authorities released his name and photograph, and said that this Kim Su-cheol earlier served a 15-year sentence for rape.
Last fall Gusts of Popular Feeling looked at the relatively short sentences handed out for sex crimes against children, a post prompted by the outrage following the "Na-young Incident" when a 57-year-old was given 12 years for brutalizing an 8-year-old. It remains to be seen, then, in this supposed climate of harsher punishment, how much leniency Kim will be given for admitting he was drunk.
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Isn't this pretty much the reason why schools are locked-down and off-limits to the public?
I hope the parents sue the living God out of this school and the teacher and anyone else they can get their hands on. Schools and teachers assume liability for children; that's why their licensed and governed.
That some man could just wander in and do this is disgusting, in my opinion, second only to the horrible thing he did.
Many my daughter is 8 years old. I can't imagine this happening to her - wTF was this fucking idiot thinking.
How many times does this have to happen before a serious change in policy with regards to those who are allowed to enter a school, and those who are punished for doing such an unspeakable crime takes place?
I hope the netizens go nuts over this one! ><
I wonder how many times stuff like this can happen before people realize that box cutters are potentially dangerous weapons. I'm surprised more kids don't get shived by their class mates with the blades that they carry in their pencil cases.
Sure, they can lock down the schools, but it will not really affect how often things like this happen. It will just be a mental comfort, and illusion of safety.
Leaving things the way they are might SEEM worse, but at least you will not raise children who are scares of every person on the street whom they don't know.
the best you can do is make the punishment bad enough to make the public happy, but then you are dealing with another set of problems.
This guy has a prior conviction, and lives next to a school?
Unbelievable. I don't know how the guy could walk around for an hour drunk and no noticed him. I'm wondering why that poor girl was out there all alone at 10AM.
They sould keep him in prison this time.
Lola,
I don't know where you've been living, but in South Korea seeing drunken men at all times of the day isn't abnormal nor is having people with prior sexual crimes living next to schools or day cares.
What's really appalling is the girl's actual age. With that severe of an injury, she is probably really only 6 years old while 8 in Korean age. It's just too bad that this monster can't be sent to an American prison and get a dose of child-rapist reality.
Damn foreign teachers, enough is enough!
If there is any justice in the world Kim and these "religious" child murderers will be dealt some.
How about the case in Russia recently where some Goth kids actually cooked and ate their 16 year old victim...
And, about the drunk ajussis in Korea. I live and work in San Francisco and avoiding random drunk people is a sport here in SF.
Isn't this pretty much the reason why schools are locked-down and off-limits to the public?
Not in Korea, they aren't. Nor are there any rules that visitors must sign-in with the administrative office or security guards at the school. I've seen plenty of random strangers walking around my schools and no one (except myself) ever thought to ask who they were or why they were there.
When I was visiting Korea in the mid 90s my grandmother sent me to pick-up my cousin at her all girls high school. When I tried to go through the gates the security guard ajussi came up to me and gave me the 3rd degree. He was going to call the police until my cousin came out to confirm who I was. I'm not sure if things have gotten lax or what but I used to think that Korea had a tip top security at their HS.
My former high school in the states was a shit hole compared to that. A buck naked guy high on pcp ran around screaming at kids while holding a steak knife once. Drug dealers used to take over the school parking lot at night and deal drugs. Teachers were so afraid of the kids they would never report fights in the classrooms.
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