Singer Kim Gun-mo (54) was completely cleared of sexual assault charges.
On the 4th, the 30th Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court dismissed the application for financial aid against Kim Gun-mo by woman A.
The judge said, "The applicant accused the suspect of rape, and the prosecutor dismissed the prosecution as not guilty." "If you look at the record of this case and all the materials submitted by the applicant, you can accept that the disposition of the prosecution was justified, and it is difficult to admit that it is unfair otherwise." There is not enough data,” he said.
Previously, Mr. A, a waitress at an entertainment establishment, appeared on the YouTube Garosero Research Institute in 2019 and claimed that Kim Gun-mo sexually assaulted her at an entertainment establishment in 2016, and sued the following year.
On November 18 last year, almost two years after the complaint was filed, the prosecution issued a decision not to prosecute her, and Mr. A appealed, but was dismissed again last June.
Then, Mr. A appointed lawyer Kang Yong-seok of the law firm Nextro, a former host of the Garosero Research Institute, as his legal representative, and filed an application for her finances, but she was again dismissed.
Application for adjudication is a complaint procedure in which a prosecutor makes a decision not to prosecute, and the decision is dissatisfied.
Previously, it was known that the prosecution decided not to prosecute, saying that the woman who had been sexually assaulted by Kim Gun-mo contradicted her statements about the specific acts and changed little by little.
Regarding this, an aide to Kim Gun-mo told SBS Entertainment News reporters, "It's been a painful and long time since I was cleared of the charges," and "I will find a way to repay those who believed in me," and mentioned the possibility of becoming a singer.
(Reporter Kang Kyung-yoon of SBS Entertainment News)