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Ahead of the 100 days before the release of child sex offender Cho Doo-soon, we started a series of reports from yesterday (3rd) to check the management status and punishment of sex offenders.
Today, in the second order, let's look at how different the court ruling, which angered the whole people by imposing light punishment on Cho Doo-soon, has changed over the years.
Reporter Shim Yeong-gu and Ahn Hye-min from the Data Journalism Team will deliver.
<Reporter Shim
Young-
gu>
There are more than 3,000 Jo Doo-
soons
each year who commit sex crimes against children and adolescents.
I looked at two of them.
In April of last year, a 47-year-old man brought an elementary school student to this inn.
It was about 300m from the school.
[Neighboring residents: He came in holding a small baby's hand, and went out.
Who is it, and then they said that it's our daughter, a family discord and bringing my daughter.]
That day, the man forcibly harassed and raped an elementary school student.
The penalty was 13 years in prison.
Upon completion of the sentence in 2032, you will wear an electronic anklet for 20 years and receive probation.
The court judged that the sexual assault was undoubtedly unproven, and that it was an attempt.
And he was sentenced to a year heavier than Jo Doo-soon 12 years ago.
On the other hand, there are judgments like this.
In April 2018, a 34-year-old man was handed over to trial for sexual assault by taking an elementary school student he found out through a chat app to his home.
Considering the fact that the child was given alcohol before the crime and operated a tutoring academy for children, a medium sentence was expected, but in the first trial, eight years in prison, and in the second trial, three years were sentenced.
The Supreme Court judgment has not changed either.
The main reason was that there was no assault or blackmail.
[Jang Yun-mi / Director of Public Affairs, Korean Women's Attorneys Association: Not only is it quite against the current trend of severely punishing sexual crimes like this, but it is also judged that there is a considerable gap with the national law sentiment.]
This man is released next year and has an electronic anklet attached. I didn't do it.
Two-thirds of these sexual violence crimes against children and adolescents are forced assault, and the rest are sexual assaults and similar sexual assaults.
Why is that?
<Reporter Ahn Hye-min>
Let's take a closer look.
From January of last year to July of this year, Mabujakchi analyzed 300 cases of child and adolescent sexual assault cases sentenced across the country.
Of the total, 82.0% were imprisoned and 16.3% were suspended.
Compared to 2018, prison sentences have increased a little and probation has decreased.
The average prison sentence was 6 years and 2 months, an increase of nearly 1 year from 2018.
In general, punishments for sexual offenders against children like Doo-Soon Cho are getting heavier than before, but as you have seen a while ago, the problem is that rulings that do not conform to the public sentiment are still coming out.
We will also check the prevention of recidivism after punishment.
First is the electronic anklet.
Of the 300 judgments analyzed, only 37 cases, or 12.3%, were ordered to attach electronic anklets.
The rest were excluded from location tracking management. Among the last one-and-a-half years of judgment, even if the sentence was higher than the average, 9% of cases, and 27 cases, did not claim the electronic anklet attachment or the claim was dismissed.
The reason for dismissal was that there was no history of sexual crime in the past, and there were contents that the risk of the crime was not high for unspecified targets because their birth daughter and stepdaughter were the targets of the crime.
12 years after the incident Jo Doo-soon.
Nevertheless, there is still not a lot of judicial supplementation for sexual offenses against children.
No more repeating the loss of cows and repairing the stables.
(Video coverage: Lee Byeong-ju, video editing: Kim Jong-tae, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Ahn Jun-seok, Choi Jae-young, Lee Ye-jeong, Sung Jae-eun)