<Gabreal's Death: Whose Responsibility?>

It's been a month since my stay-at-home order in California. Non-essential businesses such as hospitals and grocery stores have been converted to homes, and restaurants can only be packaged and delivered. In the United States, people who have lost their jobs or have long been isolated are protesting everywhere, saying, "You can't give up freedom for safety." At this time, 'freedom' is actually another name for 'economy'. Corona19 goes beyond simple disease and becomes a test stand showing the administrative power and medical system of a country. So, many have suggested that the evaluation of national competitiveness before and after Corona19 should be changed.

Watching the current situation in which the government's administrative power is directly connected to the lives of the people, Netflix's documentary series <The Death of Gavreal: Whose Responsibility?> I started watching this series of 6-hour documentary series while working from home. However, it took almost three weeks to finish watching the final episode. Compared to ending a similar amount of <Kingdom> Season 2 in 2 days and 1 night, it was a ridiculous rate of appreciation.


Gabereal deals with a boy who was cruelly tortured by his mother and his boyfriend and died. It's a story about terrible child abuse that often comes up in Korean newspapers. The superiority of this documentary is that it does not focus on the deviant behavior of guardians like psychopaths. The director focuses more on how the society neglected the boy, that is, how the child welfare system failed.

Gabereal, an 8-year-old boy, was not held in custody. I went to school and played in the public housing yard. Above all, his family was already managed by a social worker. The child's whole body was evidence of child abuse. The scars on his body were screaming. Many people witnessed it, and the child complained directly to the teacher.

The homeroom reported to the Child Welfare Bureau, and the worker visited the family. However, the principal instructed the homeroom teacher not to be involved beyond reporting, and the worker confirmed the child's psychological state and ended it. The worker's visit, which was made every time the teacher reported, was rather a motive for a mother and boyfriend to abuse retaliation against Gabriel. Upon finding out, the homeroom teacher hesitated to continue reporting.

There was a welfare system, but managers had no motivation or time. Gabrielle did not receive the 24-hour medical screening services provided for children who were abused like him. City welfare officials, where Gabriel lived, did not take any action when they saw Gabriel, who was bruised. To investigate what was not assigned to him (the Gabrielle case), it was because of his boss's command to prepare to quit his job. After that, there was a labor policy that never paid the excess allowance of outsourcing workers.

So many people
missed the opportunity to save Gabriel.

The prosecutor in charge of the 'Gabriel' case accused the abuser's boyfriend of the mother of Gabriel, of deliberate murder, and prosecuted it as a first-degree murder. The jury agreed to a first-class murder that could save the death penalty. And the death penalty was imposed. My mother was sentenced to imprisonment without parole. The expectation that these strong penalties could prevent the same crime collapsed a few months later when child abuse deaths reoccurred in the same area.


When you look at the documentary, Gabrielle, the word "I need an entire village to raise a child" comes to mind. In the village of Gabriel, there were institutional devices to protect the child, but they were not working properly because of the economic logic and the inertia of bureaucracy. In order for a child to survive, the village must go beyond just being present and aim for the right values. That's because it is the driving force that breathes the system.

In the era of Corona 19, we are seeing the values ​​that the community we live in aims at less than before. <Gabriel> showed that no matter how good a system is, the value of the community that makes it up is useless if it does not support it. Corona 19 became an unexpected braking system for humans who had run out of breath. The value of the world, which has been running only for high growth and efficiency, no longer seems useful.

Literally, it is a time when there is a desperate need to save lives.

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