After reading about a Korean Judge giving suspended sentences to four men who raped a sixteen-year-old relative who had a developmental disability. Please consider registering your opinion below. Please be sure to read about this story before registering your opinion (November 24 report & December 3 report).
As of December 13, 2008, 16,839 people joined the original Korean internet petition!
Tags: Polls, Sex offenders, sexual assault
December 3, 2008 at 7:13 pm |
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December 3, 2008 at 7:15 pm |
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December 4, 2008 at 8:58 pm |
Perhaps the judge enjoys the same pleasures. The judge should be carefully analyzed by a psychiatrist to assess his sexual problems! The judge should be jailed! Pittsburg, CA 94565
December 4, 2008 at 10:15 pm |
“Outrage” is not quite enough to describe the OUTRAGE. Presently I am in Korea, talked to many Koreans about the judge. I found the outrage is universal. Rights groups in Korea will be appreciative and encouraged by your article and support.
December 4, 2008 at 10:30 pm |
Thanks, Neil for letting us know how people in Korea are feeling about this. If there are good ways for icad or people in general here to support the concerns of the Korean people about this, there are many people who would like to lend some support.
December 5, 2008 at 4:07 pm |
Even if it were appropriate to give them a suspended sentence, it would not be appropriate to have them caring for her. That basically amounts to public permission to abuse her further.
December 5, 2008 at 5:42 pm |
The judge – shame on him – has basically condoned a transaction in which a young lady with a disability is expected to pay for her care with her body and her human rights. I agree with the good people of Korea in exposing and denouncing the harmful, warped ‘rationale’ of this judge.
December 6, 2008 at 6:37 am |
Even worse, Sharon. It wasn’t even a “young woman” to start with. She is 16 now, but it happened from 2001, meaning that she had to be 8 or 9 when it started….
December 7, 2008 at 6:04 am |
As the mother of an adopted Korean child, and another child who is autistic, I am SADDENED but unsurprised that the Korean government would do this. Their “family” oriented society expects the family to care for infirmed or disabled people. Having been in the streets of Seoul, I saw the care the government gives to those in need. . .
December 8, 2008 at 3:50 pm |
Sometimes I get so frustrated over what the effects of “multi-culturalism” has done to the U.S. and Canada.–Between multi-culturalism and the rejection of moral values, I attribute these two issues as almost the core of the problem in cases like this girl’s.
Until I learn of situations occuring in other countries, I tend to want to just clean up the local North American problem. That doesn’t help the vulnerable people in other countries, though.
Laws are supposed to represent the best interests of a nation’s citizens. When instead, the laws represent the endorsement of criminal behavior and lifestyle, the victims are not obliged to submit to the rule of law.
If anything, she should qualify for refugee status to a “civilized” country, where they will protect her better than that.
December 11, 2008 at 7:21 am |
I am sickened and horrified by this story. I only wish I could help her in person. I am not a wealthy person but I have a lot of love to give. I wish I could give her a home where she would be protected and loved. I so hope that someone will help her. She will be in my prayers. My God keep her safe and may God deal with that judge.
December 15, 2008 at 2:24 am |
The unfortunate fact is that abuses against people with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, occur in ALL countries and cultures. It is not confined to Korea, and certainly has nothing to do with people’s eating habits. This happens to be one particularly heinous case, but it would be cultural arrogance to assume that your own country would be immune to similar problems.
I would urge everyone to learn more about how violence against people with disabilities is an INTERNATIONAL problem: one starting point would be at my blog at this page: http://wecando.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/report-violence-against-disabled-children/, which leads to some useful links.
That said: if this is the place for those of us from outside Korea to add our voices in protest, then I would like to be one of those urging that the girl be protected from her rapists, and that the judge on this case be removed from the bench for demonstrating such despicably poor judgment.