A video of a gang of teenagers who lured a man in his 40s to a motel with the bait of meeting conditions and assaulted him is spreading online, causing shock.
It is known that the group of perpetrators also included elementary school students.
On the 26th, Incheon Michuhol Police Station announced that it had arrested two teenage males, including group A, and booked without detention six teenage men and women, including group B, on charges of robbery and violation of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection.
Group A and others are also accused of assaulting and injuring C, a man in his 40s with a blunt instrument, and stealing money and valuables at a motel in Michuhol-gu, Incheon on the 17th at 10:48 am.
In addition, they are also charged with filming the scene of assaulting Mr. C with a mobile phone and distributing it directly online.
Recently, a video believed to be an assault video at the time is rapidly spreading online, causing controversy.
In the video, a group of teenagers cornered an adult man, threatened him with an iron pipe, and assaulted him.
He hit the victim's face and assaulted the victim with a fire extinguisher after he collapsed because he could not withstand the assault.
Other perpetrators watching this were busy laughing, saying, "I pretend to faint."
Along with the video, the names, ages, dates of birth, schools, and social media accounts of the seven presumed perpetrators are spreading online.
According to this, the youngest teenagers were in the 5th grade of elementary school.
Meanwhile, as a result of the police investigation into the 'Incheon motel group assault case', it was found that some of the group A were runaway teenagers and called the victims to the motel through SNS.
The police said, "We are investigating the specific circumstances by arresting all the teenagers who filmed and distributed the video at the time."