▲ Press conference of the surviving family of Moo-kun who died of drunk driving
The driver who drunk driving in broad daylight and killed a 6-year-old child was sentenced to eight years in prison at the first trial.
On the 12th, Judge Kwon Gyeong-seon, who was solely responsible for criminal 11 of the Seoul Western District Law, sentenced a 59-year-old Kim Mo, who was handed over to trial under the Act on the Special Offenses Act (Special Privileges Act), to be sentenced to eight years in prison on charges such as a dangerous driving death.
On September 6, last year, at around 3:30 pm in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Mr. Kim was charged with hitting a street lamp in India while drinking and driving a car. The street lamp collapsed and killed a six-year-old aunt.
They are also accused of hurting passersby.
At that time, Kim's blood alcohol concentration was 0.144%, which was the level of license cancellation.
"The defendant's drunk driving resulted in an irreversible result in which this army, who is only 6 years old, struck his head against a falling streetlight and eventually died." "You have to punish severely," he said.
The court explained that the charges against dangerous driving under the Special Act applied to Kim were implemented to raise awareness about drunk driving and to prepare a law suited to the appraisal of the national law, and that it should be viewed differently from general traffic accidents.
The judge said, "The survivors did not intend to forgive and did not want to contact the accused, so it could not be delivered, but the accused immediately after the accident wrote down regrets for the victims and their families repeatedly in the form of reflection. He said, "I decided on a sentence by combining various circumstances."
At a decision hearing held last month, the prosecution sentenced Kim to 10 years in prison.
When the sentence was handed down, the family members of this army complained, "Judge is too much. This is the law for the perpetrator."
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