Junior high school keeps hush hush about sexual assault case

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Four male junior high school students allegedly filmed a female classmate's private area, molested her, and spread the pictures around. The only thing the school did once it was reported was separate the students into different homerooms. The school did not explain what had happened at all to the parents.

When YTN tried to report on the matter, the school denied everything until finally admitting that the male students did indeed film her but that there wasn't any sexual assault or harassment involved.

Parents of the school are planning to charge the principal with dereliction of duty.

1. [+413, -1] The school is 'Shin Mok Junior High School' located in Seoul, Yangchun-gu, Mok 5 dong, 902-1 (02-2648-2142)

2. [+235, -6] It's because adults let these things off so easily that these kids grow up to commit sexual crimes like they're nothing... Please, strengthen the laws so that kids know right off the bat what a disgusting and wrong thing this is!

3. [+24, -1] Aigoo, it's a school in the Mok-dong neighborhood, the same neighborhood that refused to allow charity housing because it would lower their real estate value. Really great kids you're raising there~ You can raise them all up to be government officials.

4. [+19, -0] Uhh... splitting them up into different homerooms doesn't mean they can't track the girl down still.. They're still in the same school. What was the point of that???

5. [+17, -0] People who ignore the wounds of their own students have no right to be teachers.

6. [+13, -0] The school or the army, everyone is so quick to hide any wrongdoing.

7. [+7, -0] When will people learn that not handling matters properly will only set up a foundation that makes an even worse incident happen the next time?

8. [+6, -0] This is actually one of the better examples of punishments. Korean junior high schools are known for poor disciplinary action... A male student could rape a classmate right in the school and the teachers won't call the police or report it other than giving the kid community service and transferring the girl out of the school. If I were president, I'd start by abolishing schools that dare to graduate a student who raped a fellow classmate.

YTN via Nate | netizenbuzz

Comments

[katzsong.livejournal.com]

"...the school denied everything until finally admitting that the male students did indeed film her but that there wasn't any sexual assault or harassment involved."

...as if filming is not sexual assault nor harassment enough >.>

*brb flipping some school's tables*

edit:
and netizen #8 should be in the Ministry of Education or something :3

[sunshine2163.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE GIANT FUCK?
Seriously, start holding this children accountable. Soon they will be adults and will think they can get away with anything. This is how you breed future criminals

[gigabytexx.livejournal.com]

Last comment win tbh

[sydeast.livejournal.com]

Agreed with everything that was just said. I still don't understand how minors get away with so much there. To me, once you learn the differences between right and wrong, then you are held accountable for your actions.

[aiedailglow.livejournal.com]

I think it's not a question of a minor or not a minor because judging from the news posted here, adults get away too. SK has a problem of not taking these things seriously :|

[klauses.livejournal.com]

Nah, only males get away with shit.

[aiedailglow.livejournal.com]

yeah, true, I forgot that :/

[yunhalove.livejournal.com]

it's not just korea, this kind of stuff happens way more often than people care to admit. like steubenville, where the entire TOWN tries to cover the scandal up before they were made to be held accountable by netizens. hopefully korean netizens can pull off something similar here now that the school's name has been released.

[digitalqueen.livejournal.com]

+1

[stylishlook.livejournal.com]

Definitely agree with the last comment. I don't understand why the school failed to come up with a sufficient solution. Why didn't they do something? Is it because Korea's law system in regards to school and education are still lacking in many aspects and there really isn't much to be done or are they simply lazy?

I'm not even going to talk about their way of solving the problem. I think these boys should be sent to the police, expelled and have something on their profile so they can never work with young students when they're older. It's just so damn disgusting.

The unfortunate reality is that Korea is still a country lacking in many aspects when it comes to their education system. As far as I know certain students abuse their background, parents' status in society and even some teachers avoid them, they normally do not stand up to these students, fearing they'll lose their job (and trust me, this is possible if the parents is a high ranking government official). It's unethical, but at the end of the day teachers are humans and we cannot all expect teachers do what their morals tell them to do every single day. This is the bigger picture though and should be saved for another day.

[mikilove13.livejournal.com]

Yay for these comments. I know it's not all of them, but it's refreshing to see people react against the perps and not the victims. Also, go netizens for revealing that school and for that last comment.

[aiedailglow.livejournal.com]

netizen #3

"You can raise them all up to be government officials."

Real scary stuff here

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

If the Miryang gang rape case didn't teach them that I don't what else will. This case man..

[purpleglaceon]

I didn't know about that case so I googled it up and

"A controversy erupted over allegations that the police had acted against the interests of the victims. A police officer was alleged to have told the victims they were "embarrassing his hometown", and the police ignored the requests of the victims' families for the case to be handled by a female officer."

Korea is doomed to be a country of rapist.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Korea have any system to handle crminals that are too young for actual criminal penalty system? In my country kids like these are usually taken away from their parents' guardianship and placed in special school-homes where they have stricter rules.

[purpleglaceon]

"It's because adults let these things off so easily that these kids grow up to commit sexual crimes like they're nothing... "

Yup, exactly. This is why we are going to have a society of kids with prince disease because their parents didn't raised them and gave them all they wanted and never bothered teaching them anything at all so they think all is theirs and all is right -roll eyes-

[torontok.livejournal.com]

All these school officials deserve to be burnt at stake imo

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

If you don't punish severely, this will never change.

[yunhalove.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the steubenville case where kids literally TWEETED photographic/video evidence of their crimes and the school just tried to cover it up. this kind of mentality should NOT be condoned, period.

[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

dont even get me started that only a few were tried in juvi and will have it expunged from their records as adults it pisses me off so much

[imyoona.livejournal.com]

and the media talking about the "poor boys who still had so much to look forward to." ughh

[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

ugh fuck the media coverage on that whole case there was so many little bits on how they are just children and are misunderstood and their parents coming on tv and telling us to be ashamed of hating "little boys" nah fuck that noise you want to rape a women multiple times and drug her and laugh and record and ridicule her you deserve all the hate and disgust in the world.

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

they do that with everything and it's sickening, somehow the aggressor is the one we should feel bad for because we have to be neutral. i remember when they were covering the zimmerman case they were like, "it must be terrible for him to had to have taken a life". ugh.

[bubblyshades.livejournal.com]

Sickening.

We have so much to go in the way of victims' rights everywhere in the world.

[mandyyy.livejournal.com]

So it's ok to distribute child pornography in Korea? Way to go, Korea.. Just keep raising more degenerates to lower your already piss poor image in the eyes of the world. 4 for you Korea Coco!

THE SHADE

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

3. [+24, -1] Aigoo, it's a school in the Mok-dong neighborhood, the same neighborhood that refused to allow charity housing because it would lower their real estate value. Really great kids you're raising there~ You can raise them all up to be government officials.


I love shadey netizens

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

Agree with all the comments from 2 onwards, idek what to say.

[kukamine.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised at the netizens' comments, I expected them to say some really terrifying shit (well some of them probably did lbr, but the one's posted in nb obviously don't reflect that)