In the midst of an incident in which a middle school girl was assaulted by her family in the middle of Gangnam, Seoul, the police detained the father of the victim.
According to the police on the 20th, Gangnam Police Station in Seoul applied temporary measure No. 7 under the Child Abuse Punishment Act to Mr. A안전놀이터, the father of a middle school girl, in his 40s, and the court accepted it.
Temporary Measure No. 7 is a measure to detain the perpetrator in a detention center or detention center for up to two months to protect children if there is a risk of recurrence of abuse. According to this decision, Mr. A is known to have been detained at the Eastern Detention Center in Seoul the afternoon before.
Mr. A’s couple and the victim’s high school student brother, Mr. B, are accused of assaulting a middle school girl for about 20 minutes in an apartment complex in Gangnam, Seoul on the morning of the 15th.
Nearby CCTV footage showed the middle school girl being assaulted by her family. In her video, her middle school girl runs away barefoot, and her Mr. A chases after her at high speed, knocks her over, drags her by her hair, and strikes her in the abdomen. After her arrival, her mother kicked her middle school student on her knees several times, and Mr. B was also caught taking part in her assault.
On the 15th, in Gangnam, Seoul, a man in his 40s caught and assaulted a middle school girl running out barefoot, captured on CCTV ./ SBS
On the 15th, in Gangnam, Seoul, a family assaulting a middle school girl’s daughter was captured on CCTV ./ SBS
The police are investigating and indicting couple A and B on charges of physical abuse and assault under the Special Act on the Punishment of Domestic Violence Crimes, respectively. In addition, an emergency measure was issued to prevent access or contact with middle school girls.
They are known to have stated in a police investigation that “her daughter refused hospital treatment and was punished.” The police plan to investigate whether the victim has ever suffered abuse before.
It is known that the victim who was admitted to the shelter did not have any serious trauma.