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The court sentenced the teenagers to prison terms for enticing men to meet conditions, assaulting them, stealing money, and sexually assaulting their juniors.
According to the legal community today (9th), the 1st Criminal Division of the Cheonan Branch of the Daejeon District Court sentenced Group A (17) to 7 years long and 5 years short term for charges of robbery, special robbery, special theft, and sexual assault. .
Group B (17), who was charged with the same charges, was sentenced to a long term of 6 years, short term of 4 years, and a fine of 300,000 won, and C (17) was sentenced to a long term of 5 years and June and a short term of 3 years and 6 months respectively.
In addition, they were ordered to complete an 80-hour sexual violence treatment program and to be restricted from employment at institutions related to children, youth and the disabled for five years.
A, B, and C, friends from middle and high school, were charged with luring five men to a motel in Cheonan from January to March of last year, assaulting them, and stealing about 10 million won.
They planned a crime with their peers and juniors to lure men who bought sex with female juniors, and when the men entered the motel, they said, "What are you doing to her sister?"
In the process, it was revealed that if the sex buyers did not want to pay, they threatened to burn themselves with cigarettes or pour hot water on them.
It is also said that they raped the female juniors who were involved in the crime and forced them into prostitution.
Previously, they were arrested by the police as current criminals, and after being released, they were known to have committed another crime.
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Eventually, they stood in court, and in the final argument, the defense lawyer appealed, "I wonder if long-term isolation from society is necessarily right for high school students," and "give them a chance to live as members of society."
However, the judge pointed out that "the accused have been prosecuted for various crimes, and the method and contents of the crime are bold and cruel" and "It is hard to believe that 16-year-old boys at the time of the crime committed it, and the crime committed against a woman who was forced into prostitution It's downright embarrassing," he said.
On the other hand, juvenile offenders are sentenced to long-term and short-term prison sentences within the scope of the sentence, and after the short-term sentence, depending on whether they are reformed, they can be released without paying a long sentence.
According to Article 60 of the Juvenile Act (Irregular Criminal Punishment), juvenile offenders can only be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison for a long term and up to 5 years for a short term in prison. There is not.