20s Man Kidnaps and Assaults Male Acquaintance with a Shovel for Helping His Girlfriend Run Away

"The crime method is brutal... Considering the victims' suffering"

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[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Suwan] A man in his 20s who forced another man to dig the ground and indiscriminately beat him with a shovel, claiming that his runaway girlfriend was having an affair with the other man, was sentenced to prison.

The Chuncheon District Court Criminal Division 2 (Chief Judge Park Ikyu) sentenced A (24) and B (21), who were indicted on charges of special injury and joint confinement, to three years and two years in prison respectively, and ordered them to complete 40 hours of sexual violence treatment programs. In addition, three teenagers and men in their 20s who participated in the crime were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to one year and six months each.

The court stated the reason for sentencing, saying, "A led and directed the crime and the method of the crime was cruel. The sentences were determined considering the pain the victims must have felt and the degree of involvement of the others."

In June 2018, A conspired with four people aged from teens to twenties, including B, whom he was introduced to by his cousin, to bring back C (a woman in her 20s who was dating A), who ran away with the help of D, her partner, because she could not endure A's violence during cohabitation.

Then, at around 2:50 p.m. on July 16 last year, when C and D appeared at a hotel in Chuncheon, A and the men he was introduced to caught them and indiscriminately beat D's face dozens of times.

Afterwards, they forcibly put D into a pre-prepared passenger car and took him to a nearby mountain. They made him kneel and climb the mountain path with both hands touching the ground. It is known that they also used violence several times during this process.

In particular, A made D dig the ground with a shovel, and when D failed to do it properly, A repeatedly struck D’s buttocks with the shovel, causing injuries requiring three weeks of medical treatment.

Also, A and others committed a crime that induced sexual humiliation by filming D’s body using a camera.

It was also investigated that A repeatedly beat his girlfriend C with a 1-meter-long clothes hanger rod.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.