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As the number of deaths of children due to child abuse, including the 'Jung In-i Incident' last year, continued, voices calling for severe punishment grew louder. The Supreme Court Sentencing Committee has decided to raise the sentencing standards so that the maximum sentence for 'child abuse and death' can be up to 22 years and 6 months in prison.



This is reporter Han So-hee.



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director of a daycare center, A, who forced a 21-month-old child to sleep and forced him to die.



In the course of the investigation, it was also revealed that several students had been subjected to similar abuse.



Hundreds of petitions for severe punishment were received, causing outrage, but Mr. A was sentenced to only 9 years in prison in the first trial last month.



The Supreme Court Sentencing Committee has significantly increased the upper limit of the sentence for child abuse cases as public opinion has risen against the harsh punishment for the continuous child abuse crimes.



The standard of sentence for child abuse 'death' is 4 to 7 years at the basic level, and 6 to 10 years at aggravation.



In addition, the upper limit has been raised so that if there are two or more factors to judge the quality of the crime as bad, the sentence can be up to 22 years and 6 months in prison.



The recommended sentence for the crime of 'murder' of child abuse, which was newly established under the so-called 'Jungin Lee Act' in March, was also prepared.



It ranges from a minimum of 17 years to a maximum of 22 years, but if the offense is bad, the sentence is to be sentenced to at least 20 years in prison or life in prison.



[Gimyewon / attorney (disability law center) community was criticized not appropriate the sentiment, but a significant upward the sentencing guidelines that judges can review it sufficiently reflected in the sentencing phase very desirable (to)



the hearing sentencing time The standard applies to crimes prosecuted after the resolution in March of next year.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, video editing: Yu Mira)