24 November 2008 - Cheongju, Korea A Korean court found the grandfather and three uncles of a sixteen-year-old girl with an intellectual disability guilty of repeatedly raping the girl over the last seven years. This suggests that the rapes started when she was only nine. According a story in the Korea Times, one of those convicted has a previous conviction for rape. Incredibly, the court sentenced all four to suspended sentences ranging from three to four years. The Korea Times quotes the court as suggesting that the light sentences were given so that the perpetrators could continue caring for the victim:
The accused have fostered the girl in her parents’ place. Considering her disability, she will also need their care and help in living in the future.
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Tags: intellectual disability, Sex offenders, sexual assault
December 3, 2008 at 5:53 pm |
[...] uncles of the victims so they would be free to take care of the victim, as previously reported on icad. Now an internet based petition has gather more than 16,000 electronic signatures protesting the [...]
December 3, 2008 at 6:15 pm |
[...] would allow them to continue to take care of the victim (see earlier report of this case, Korean Outrage, and Thousands Protest Rapists Probation! on icad.) Now, thousands are calling for the [...]
December 3, 2008 at 7:04 pm |
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December 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm |
I can’t add a lot to what has already been said, except this is so typical of how people with disabilities are viewed and valued in various/most societies. The idea that these men were ‘taking care’ of her in the first place is inappropriate, but to insist they continue rather than go to jail where they belong is truly an act of injustice.
December 3, 2008 at 10:37 pm |
[...] Korean Outrage and [...]
March 20, 2009 at 3:57 pm |
[...] about widespread public outrage when all four perpetrators were given suspended sentences. See Korean Outrage and Thousands Protest [...]