Accused child rapist Kim Su-cheol re-enacts crime for police.

From Voice of the People.

The man suspected of taking an 8-year-old girl from school last week and raping her reenacted the crime for police, and journalists, Tuesday. Writes the JoongAng Daily:

The two-hour re-enactment, staged to see how Kim’s story matched with what the girl told police on Monday, began at 6 a.m. yesterday at the school where the victim was abducted on June 7. Once it reached an alley that leads to Kim’s house, about 480 meters (1,575 feet) away from the school, police opened the scene to the public.

The article closes with the paradoxical juxtaposition of the additional charges facing Kim, and some of his earlier sexual activity:

Police said they will file additional charges against Kim for violating the law governing child and youth sex before they hand the case to prosecutors this morning. The legal age of consent in Korea is 19, and the law provides harsher punishment for those who have sex with children under 13.

Police said Kim paid an 18-year-old runaway to have sex with him about 30 times. The girl, a middle-school dropout who lived with Kim for two months this year, was paid 20,000 won ($16) each time, but was not forced into intercourse, investigators said. Kim reportedly admitted to police that she is pregnant, but said she doesn’t know who the father is.

But, didn't they just say . . . ?

I'm reminded of this article from last summer, which upon review looks like it's talking about the same people:

A local high court found a 46-year-old man not guilty of having sex with a runaway teenage girl, saying their liaison was neither forced nor in exchange for money.

The Busan District Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that acquitted the man, identified as Kim, of charges related to the violation of the law covering the protection of minors.

Kim bought food for the 16-year-old girl, who was wandering near Seoul Station, and allowed her to stay at his home in December 2006. He was indicted for having sex with her while the two lived together for about six months.

``The girl had already been homeless for about two years before meeting Kim, and he did not control her after offering his house as a shelter to her request. So we don’t acknowledge the prosecution’s claim that Kim made the minor (engage in sexual activity) away from her parents’ protection,’’ the court said.

The court also found Kim not guilty of violating the laws governing the protection of adolescents, saying, ``They had sex, but she did not demand money and he did not give her money. He provided her with shelter, food and about 20,000 won pocket money, but there is no evidence that the offering was in exchange for sex.’

In Korea, a person is not guilty of any crime for having sex with a minor aged 13 and over unless it is paid for or forced. Sex with those under the age of 13 is punishable even if it is carried out under mutual consent.