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Ahn Woo-jin, pitcher of professional baseball Kiwoom, who was punished for school violence five years ago, announced a statement today (18th).

Even though he reflected, he claimed that the truth was buried because of public opinion, expressing the violence at the time as a 'small act of admonition'.

However, as we investigated, the level of violence was not light to be seen as a discipline.



This is Reporter Lee Seong-hoon.



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These are some of the minutes from the A high school violence committee meeting in August 2017, when Ahn Woo-jin was in his third year of high school.



Group A, namely An Woo-jin, hit the head with a cell phone several times, hit the shin with a baseball bat handle more than 10 times, and hit the head with a baseball more than 10 times. .



At the time, the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, which looked into this issue, had the same opinion.



He pointed out that the measures taken by the school, which did not take any disciplinary action even after leaving the school violence committee open, were inappropriate, and said that school violence clearly appeared to have taken place, and that it could not be alleviated with a victim petition and that reasonable measures should be taken.



In the end, Ahn Woo-jin received a severe punishment from the Korea Sports Council, which prevented him from being selected for the national team.



[Ahn Woo-jin/Kiwoom Pitcher (Interview in January 2018): (To the victims) I am really sorry, and I will go and apologize once more.]



However, recently, three out of four victims at the time claimed that An Woo-jin's violence was minor, After coming out, Ahn Woo-jin made a statement today.



He said that the truth was buried because of public opinion, and that he was reflecting on the fact that he had not looked at the small act of admonishment.



However, the violence of Ahn Woo-jin reported to SBS at the time was serious.



Multiple informants testified that An Woo-jin's violence was habitual, such as putting various tools in the locker and asking juniors to pick out tools to be scolded, and hitting the top of the juniors' heads with a baseball several times to frighten the juniors.



The allegation that the violence was habitual and more serious than the fact acknowledged by the school violence committee was strongly denied by Ahn Woo-jin and the school at the time, and they are still denying it. claimed it was not.



The KBO today excluded An Woo-jin from next year's WBC preliminary list.



(Video coverage: Jang Yoon-seok, video editing: Lee Jung-taek)