Men sentenced to 5, 10 years for raping teen

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

A 42-year-old man, Park, started a 10-year prison term Thursday for raping a high school student after hitting his victim in a car crash in Seoul eight years ago. 


The Northern Seoul District Court also sentenced Park’s colleague, 42-year-old Shin, to a five-year term for similar offenses against the 17-year-old girl. The court also ruled that personal information of the two men including their names, photos and addresses remain public for 10 years. According to the court panel, the two convicts raped the girl on the way to a hospital when they caused the accident on a road in northern Seoul in February, 2004. They drove the victim with her leg injured in the back seat to a nearby resort, saying, “We will drive you to a nearby hospital.”

“It is inevitable to punish these criminals severely,” the panel said. “They committed very serious crimes because they raped the crash victim at a secluded amusement park, and did not take the injured girl to a hospital.”

The victim refused to forgive them and Park showed no remorse over his actions, instead he made excuses for them, the panel added.

SK, we do NOT have the same definition of severely, AT ALL.


Source: Koreatimes

Comments

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

Oh my god what in fresh hell is this

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

Korea's courts being their usual self.

[starsinshapes.livejournal.com]

Why'd it take so long to be sentenced?

[rainbwoo.livejournal.com]

this is so sick.


no remorse over his actions, instead he made excuses for them, the panel added.
WTF.

and 10 years? this man needs to be jailed for life.

[dipropylene]

It's awful that here in Finland rapists get even less than that. For some fucking reason economic crimes are considered worse than manslaughter, murder, homicide, assaults, rapes etc.

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

...

i'm not even going to bother saying "are you fucking kidding me?" because at this point, almost nothing rape related coming from korea could shock me.

what the FUCK is wrong with these people?

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

That is not severely, what they did is just horrific and that's painfully obvious. What the hell.

[prettyminstrel.livejournal.com]

"raped the girl on the way to a hospital.."

WHAT THE FUCK

[yingmoon26.livejournal.com]

wtf 8 yrs to decide a 5/10 yr sentence term?!
that is a freaking hit and run combined with rape and u give 5/10 yrs?! SEVERELY?! HOW IS THAT EVEN-

FU SMH i just freakin can't with korea's 'justice' system

[parametre.livejournal.com]

what the actual fuck.

ten years isn't nearly long enough, either. sk really need to improve how they approach rape/sexual harassment. /:

[kanbinayume.livejournal.com]

Korea, please re-think your decisions. Will five or ten years really make a difference in the victim's mental and emotional mindset, and their physical safety at all? Will a short sentence really make a difference on the rapist's mental and emotional mindset?

[izabera.livejournal.com]

So they had an accident and then decided it would be fun to rape the victim in their car?
Or they made the accident happen on purpose, just so they could rape a schoolgirl by pretending to help her get medical attention?

Either way, these evil bastards should rot in jail forever, especially considering they showed no remorse.

[oceandezignz.livejournal.com]

You know when you laugh nervously so that you don't end up doing something violent? Yeaaahhh... didn't work. *TABLEFLIP*

[enchantark.livejournal.com]

no

[oceandezignz.livejournal.com]

Allow Gary Oldman to elaborate on the kind of laugh I meant:

[booboobooboo99.livejournal.com]

Gary Oldman - relevant to everything, ever.

[dokyungsoo.livejournal.com]

what the fuck

i have no words

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

I wonder how bad Korean prisons are.

[shineebambi.livejournal.com]

10 and 5 year sentences that's what you consider severe Korea? Really?

[lobotronic.livejournal.com]

what in the actual fucking fuck

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

It's disgusting (hitting the victim with a car first, that seems new), and I know ppl are exasperated with SK on sex crimes, but you know, I never figured the US were actually doing that much better. Wiki doesn't have information on punishment in individual states, but if a rape falls under the jurisdiction of the federal gov't, the maximums are higher than in this particular case (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Criminal_punishment), but the minimum imprisonment sentence is 0. (Though I wonder if that's in the case of, perhaps, mentally disturbed perpetrators who get chucked into rehabilitation/hospitals rather than jail.) (I have to wonder what 0-20 under "life imprisonment" for the last category means, 0-20 lifetimes? Probably a mistake.) And even if X country gives their rapists higher sentences to start off with, there's always parole. (Though, I hear that parole is a "trap" in a way and it's better to just serve the sentence, since if you violate parole they'll slap additional punishments on you....)

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 11.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. This follows the typical pattern for violent crimes in the US, where those convicted typically serve no more than half of their sentence. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_regarding_rape)
^Not recent, obviously.

Do criminals in SK get out early for good behavior (or for showing signs of remorse/behing rehabilitated) or whatever?

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Prison terms for rapist in the USA are way to short. The serial killer in my home town originally went to prison for rape, got out on parole then proceeded to rape/murder 10+ women before getting caught again.
My aunt was murdered by strangulation in that neighborhood before he went to prison the first time. No one was ever arrested. The police claim they are going back through unsolved murders to try to link it to the serial killer. We shall see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

I am sorry about your aunt, whatever the circumstances of her death.

(But regarding Sowell, it does not seem he was out on parole? Rather, he completed his 15-year sentence (http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/anthony_sowell_was_considered.html) (it's towards the end of the article)... which is what I mentioned in my first comment, that if he had been out on parole the police would have kept monitoring him. Since he completed his sentence, they released him and didn't watch him.)

I don't know if it is an issue of not giving rapists sentences that are "long enough", since there are different goals in imprisonment/punishment (ie. is imprisonment punishment or is imprisonment merely the last resort for keeping someone from harming society? Because you can either try to rehabilitate someone and help them become a less-damaged, productive member of society or you can abandon them to the prison-industrial complex and allow private prisons to profit off of them and the taxpayer...). But certainly many countries, including the US and SK, have a lot of room for improvement wrt sexual crimes/predators and, in particular, doing right by the victims. Not only as far as law enforcement goes, but socially... like, I didn't realize underreporting and slut-shaming and victim-blaming were not a thing in the US; that's news to me! >.>

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

In Korea that might very well be considered a long term prison sentence...
As far as I know the States is the only country where "a life sentence" actually means that you'll spend the rest of your life in jail..... Where I live the term "life imprisonment" means a jail term that officially lasts 12 years but usually people are let out after they've sat through half of it (if they behave well etc).... It really sucks but smaller/poorer countries can't afford to maintain a lot of jails...

Although personally I think people like this should at least have their balls cut off and possibly be locked up somewhere where they'll never see the light of day again.

[misoka-strife.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everything this comment says.

[booboobooboo99.livejournal.com]

Yeah ffs, they can't maintain the jails because they make the jails so fucking luxurious.
Sorry, a windowless dungeon with one bowl of rice every two days suits me just fine for any goddamn piece of shit rapist.

Somebody vote booboo for prez, I'll get justice done around here.

[cuyler-morgan.livejournal.com]

So wait...that American soldier got 20+ years, and he only 5ish-10? SMDH....

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Extrajudicial justice is never supposed to be appealing...

Based on the stigma convicts have in Korea and revealing their information they better get targeted for the rest of their lives. I suspect their families will remove them from their registries to avoid the shaming with them.

Sick bastards

I heard their prisons are pretty bad...good.

[muramatsu-aoi.livejournal.com]

//this is fucking disgusting!!

the korean judiciary systems seems to be lacking empathy for sexual crime victims and are making korea an unsafe place for women to stay.

please set an example by imposing harsher sentences, or in 10-20 years from now the situation will worsen..

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

obviously SK has never heard of the saying "Justice delayed is justice denied".
Explain to me WHY this took so long.

Not even going to refer to the criminal's jail time.

[deerlike.livejournal.com]

the two convicts raped the girl on the way to a hospital

There had better be a special hell for people like this.

[booboobooboo99.livejournal.com]

There is, but tbh Adelaide doesn't want them.

[taken-all.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be honest although some of you might think I'm crazy. I think this is actually a step in the right direction for the S.K. justice system. DO NOT GET ME WRONG, 10 years is a fraction of the time this man should be in jail but honestly this is on par with the American legal system (not that, that system is all it's cracked up to be) and several more. As unfortunate as it may be the average sentence is about 10 years and even with that sentence most of them only serve about 56% of the term and are eventually released on "good behavior" (which I have the unfortunate feeling might also happen in this case). However, S.K. has long had a history of underwhelming legal results for it's victims, and while this may not be satisfying it's much better than a few months of jail time. I think we should be proud that S.K. has recognized it's lack of responsibility and is attempting to dole out stronger punishments to the guilty.

....That being said who the fuck takes 8 years to sentence a confirmed criminal.

Conflicted emotions!

[steelsigns.livejournal.com]

You injured somebody in a car accident and your first thought is actually to rape her instead of "shit I just hit somebody is she alright I need to rush her to the hospital (NO DETOURS)"
No further comments about the Korean courts, BUT THIS MAN IS SEVERELY FUCKED UP

[booboobooboo99.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think "severe" is more like ACTUAL castration (none of this bullshit chemical castration) coupled with 25 to life so he can experience rape every day for the rest of his pathetic days.
What a piece of shit, I actually don't even have words for this.

[bloodyhanie.livejournal.com]

WTF. If they did that in my country, someone will get his ass whipped to perfection (permanent scar) & longer prison time.
The victim refused to forgive them
why? If the victim forgive them, is that mean they wont be serving any time? I kinda iffy reading that sentence.