A middle school student who assaulted a convenience store owner for not selling alcohol and claimed that he was a juvenile was eventually sentenced to prison.



Yesterday (18th), Chuncheon District Court Wonju Branch 3rd Criminal Division Chief Judge Shin Kyo-sik sentenced Group A (15), who was arrested and indicted on charges of injury and obstruction of business, to a long term of 3 years and a short term of 2 years and 6 months.



He was also sentenced to a fine of 300,000 won for driving a motorcycle through a middle school campus without purchasing compulsory insurance.



At around 1:30 am on August 22, last year, Group A threatened an employee who refused to sell alcohol at a convenience store in Myeongnyun-dong, Wonju-si by threatening him with a wall and assaulting the store owner who stopped him, resulting in serious injury for 8 weeks.



Immediately after the crime, the police who received a report from the store owner identified A's personal information at the scene and sent him back home.



At that time, Group A demanded the video be deleted, took away the clerk's cell phone, and proudly posted a photo of the clerk's cell phone that was badly broken on his SNS.



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▲ Convenience store owner in Myeongnyun-dong, Wonju-si assaulted, a middle school student who went on a rampage


In particular, Group A is known to have ridiculed the victims, claiming that he is a juvenile under the law who does not receive criminal punishment.



However, unlike his claim, it was found that group A did not correspond to a juvenile under the age of 14.



Chokbeop juveniles are between the ages of 10 and 14, and cannot be punished under the Criminal Act, but are subject to protective disposition under the Juvenile Act.



However, group A, who is 15 years old, is a criminal juvenile between the ages of 14 and 19, and is not a 'criminal minor' (under the age of 14) who is considered incapable of responsibility under the criminal law, so he can receive a general criminal trial rather than a protective disposition under the Juvenile Act. .



The judge ruled, "The defendant had previously gone back and forth from the court for various crimes and received juvenile protection, and four days after the juvenile protection trial at the Chuncheon District Court, he committed the crime again in this case, and the crime was bad."



"Even considering that the defendant reached an agreement with some of the victims, excluding the convenience store owner, and deposited 20 million won, a prison sentence is inevitable," he said.



(Photo/Video = Convenience store owner (anonymous) provided, Yonhap News TV)