Does the crime of cruelty to animals end with just cruelty to animals?
On the 6th SBS 'I want to know' (hereafter 'Gal'), the subtitle of 'Cross and Warning, - Interview with the Cat Predator' lit up the cat abusers.
Cat abuser Jung is on trial for mutilating his body after killing a cat and sharing this appearance on social media.
And his parents insisted on his son's mental and physical weakness and raised his voice against comparing his son with Yoo Yeong-cheol.
Jung, whom I met at the scene, confessed the crime in the photo without hesitation.
And he said he had been committing the crime since February of this year just out of curiosity.
However, he sent a private message to the person who reported him, threatening to horrify him, saying, "I'll skin you like a cat."
In response, the complainant appealed that his actions should not be viewed as mere animal cruelty.
So, is it common for animal abusers to become criminals against humans?
In the past, a Canadian porn star habitually uploaded videos of cat abuse.
Animal lovers watched him closely.
And then, years later, something that shouldn't have happened happened.
He shared a scene of killing and mutilating a Chinese student on social media.
He also showed bizarre behavior, such as disposing of his body and feeding some to dogs or mailing it to a Canadian repair company.
The suspect claimed delusional disorder, but was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
And something like this happened in Japan.
The expert said, "Not all animal cruelty leads to attacks on humans. However, the correlation should be considered. There is a good chance that a person with a psychological personality and a perception that competes for life will display aggression against humans through behavior, and such cases There are actually a lot of them.”
The production team paid attention to Kim Doo-pyo, the worst serial killer of cats in Korea, who continued to abuse cats for 35 months.
He hung a cat carcass from a tree at a university in Pohang.
The cat carcass hanging from a height of 6 meters above the ground was intended for display.
Shocked by this, the students reported it, but no trace of the culprit was found.
And after that, these crimes continued.
But at some point, the crime stopped.
A crime that stopped while media reports focused attention on the case and police investigations were active.
And last year, on Christmas Eve, another cat murder happened.
In particular, this time, the cat's paws were nailed to the cross, and some of the corpses were charred.
And six months later, in June, Kim Doo-pyo, the culprit of the horrific cat serial murder case, was arrested.
The crime scene was caught in a black box of a car, which he had committed cleverly while avoiding CCTV all the time.
Kim Doo-pyo was arrested eight days after the incident occurred.
Along with his arrest, a so-called death note was also found containing the tools he used, the history and reason for the crime, and how to avoid the investigation network.
But Kim Doo-pyo is still silent.
Experts said, "He is showing aggression towards humans as well as aggression towards cats. The act of displaying a cat carcass with warning signs, etc. It reveals aggression towards people.”
In addition, Kim Doo-pyo's crime signature is the act of attaching a warning, and the expert said, "As a criminal, you are punishing someone. You are giving an excessive meaning to your actions, but you are giving your actions to non-criminal things such as legality. It is an act of trying to give qualifications to
And experts, analyzing his warnings and criminal acts, said, "You seem to have no legal knowledge. You're just looking for a lot of data to give legality to your actions. He used the cross in the way it was supposed to. He tried to justify his actions.”
He also analyzed that the message he was trying to deliver as a warning reflected the projection of Kim Doo-pyo's sense of alienation, saying, "I don't get help, but the anger and resentment towards animals being cared for are exposed."
During the interview process, the production team paid attention to a personal broadcasting channel opened at the time Kim Doo-pyo was stopping the crime.
And as a result of tracking, it was confirmed that the operator of this channel that uploads videos of cat abuse is Kim Doo-pyo.
Kim Doo-pyo, who opened a personal broadcasting channel during the period when the crime was stopped after media reports.
The expert said, "I felt the fear of arrest, so I stopped the real crime, but I did not want to stop the crime, so it seems that I did this. It is different from ordinary people. As an owner of an abnormal mind and an abnormal personality, I have a specific abnormal desire that is difficult to endure if this is not met."
A mother who was discharged from the military a month after joining the military and did not notice her son's problems only when she assaulted the owner.
He said it wasn't until the police came to her in 2019 that he found out something was wrong with her.
However, at that time, Kim Doo-pyo was acquitted due to insufficient evidence, and the cat killing was resumed after that.
And during the interview process, the production team obtained the refugee visa application form that Kim Doo-pyo wrote.
In response, the expert said, "It changed from that people are being harmed by cats as well as I am being harmed and persecuted personally. This means that even if I attack anyone in Korea, my aggression is justified. I am harmed nationwide. It is said that it is okay to harm a cat because it is being treated, but at this point, the period of only showing violence against cats is over."
In addition, it was revealed that Kim Doo-pyo had passed the hunting license test several times, and the expert expressed his fear, saying, "If such a person has a hunting license, he will be able to hunt with a gun, not poison."
Experts were already worried that Kim Doo-pyo's actions were anti-social terrorism.
Currently, Kim Doo-pyo is charged with simple animal cruelty.
The expert said, "The scariest thing is indifference. The police, prosecutors, courts, and correctional offices will also be mechanically punished, and then the probability of recidivism is more than 100%. It should be considered that there is a sufficient possibility of becoming a violent criminal for humans by evolving it one step further.”
In fact, one informant came as a shock when it was revealed that his past mistreated dogs and cats brought by his wife to death, and subsequently killed their 8-month-old daughter for the same behavior.
In response, the expert said, "Lack of empathy is a problem. But it is difficult to change." He said, "Education is the basic to prevent animal cruelty offenders from occurring," he advised.
And experts regret that there is no case of the highest punishment for animal cruelty, and emphasized the need for institutional improvement to prevent this, saying, "Animal abuse is a crime that does not end at once and has a thick chain."
However, the reality is that even if a person commits a horrific crime of cruelty to animals and murder, it is difficult to even investigate the arrest.
As a result, it was revealed that the abusers are becoming more confident about their actions, knowing that they are difficult to be punished.
On the other hand, it is known that the United States considers animal cruelty crimes similar to sex crimes and is disclosing the identity of the criminal and building a database.
The expert added, "The message that animal cruelty crimes are serious crimes managed by the state is important to criminals. It can also have deterrence in terms of crime prevention," adding that it is necessary to review cases abroad.
Lastly, if there are appropriate punishments for animal cruelty crimes in broadcasting, Kim Doo-pyo regrets that he would not have evolved from the early criminals of secretly setting mouse traps, and urges the authorities to study animal cruelty crimes against abnormal psychology and prepare a strong social monitoring system. did.
Otherwise, what we have to worry about will no longer be an ownerless stray cat.
(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)