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A 50-year-old man who pretended to be a police officer and committed a sexual offense against a youth has been sentenced to prison.
The 12th Criminal Division of the Gwangju District Court (Chief Judge Roh Jae-ho) announced today (27th) that 53-year-old A, who was charged with violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Youth, was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Mr. A was handed over to trial on charges of sexually assaulting and illegally filming two teenagers he met through a chatting app between December 2019 and July 2020.
It was investigated that Mr. A committed the crime after showing his police ID to the victims, pretending to be a police officer, and threatening as if he would be investigated by the police for what the victims tried to do with the so-called 'conditional meeting'.
He showed me something that looked like a 'Taser gun', an electric shock weapon, and scare me, saying, "If you get hit by this once, you'll be stunned. If you don't want to go to the police station, do what you're told."
The court said, "Sex crimes against children and adolescents are unethical and unscrupulous acts that cannot be tolerated under any circumstances." I did.
He continued, "In particular, Mr. A reoffended even though he had been imprisoned for a long period of time for sexual offenses in the past. It is necessary to punish Mr. A as severe as the crime and stay in a correctional institution for a considerable period of time to create an opportunity to correct the wrong conduct." judged.
In addition to imprisonment, the court ordered A to attach an electronic location tracking device (electronic anklet) for 20 years, to notify information and communications network personal information disclosure for 10 years, and to limit employment to child and youth-related organizations and welfare facilities for the disabled for 5 years.
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