Male Students Arrested for 'Group Sexual Assault on Female Middle School Students'... Court Says "Although Juveniles, Unavoidable Circumstances"

Two boys, including A (15), who are accused of gang raping a female middle school student attending the same school, are entering the Incheon District Court on the afternoon of the 9th for a warrant hearing.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Two middle school boys identified as perpetrators in the widely publicized 'Incheon Female Middle School Student Group Sexual Assault' case, which came to light after the victim's mother filed a petition on the Blue House National Petition Board, have been detained.

On the 9th, the Yeonsu Police Station in Incheon arrested two middle school boys, including A (15), on charges of sexually assaulting a female middle school student attending the same school (rape and injury under the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, etc.).

Judge Kim Byung-guk of the Incheon District Court, responsible for warrants, conducted a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant review) that afternoon and issued arrest warrants, stating, "Although they are juveniles (minors), there are unavoidable reasons to detain them."

Both A and the other suspect appeared in court for the warrant review that day, but one of them expressed to the court their intention not to undergo the review.

When entering the court around 1:55 p.m. that day, both suspects wore masks and hats that covered most of their faces and did not respond to reporters' questions such as "Do you admit the charges?" or "Do you have anything to say to the victim?"

A and the other suspect are accused of giving alcohol to B, a female middle school student attending the same school, in the early morning hours of December 23 last year at a gym in an apartment complex in Incheon, then dragging her to the stairs near the rooftop, sexually assaulting her, and causing injury.

The police conducted an investigation for nearly three months after receiving a report from the victim's side. After the victim's mother posted a plea on the National Petition Board on the 29th of last month, the police began a second round of questioning of the suspects the following day.

The police questioned A and the others as well as B in the presence of their respective parents and collected DNA samples from A and others for testing. However, it is reported that A and the others denied the sexual assault charges during the police investigation.

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The school held a School Violence Countermeasure Committee meeting on January 3 this year and imposed a three-day suspension and forced transfer on A and the others. They were subsequently transferred to two other middle schools in the Incheon area and were attending those schools while undergoing police investigation. The police applied for arrest warrants for A and others on the 7th.

Meanwhile, the post written by B's mother on the National Petition Board has garnered 320,000 supporters as of this day.

B's mother claimed, "The perpetrators gave my daughter alcohol in their apartment, saying 'Today, we will kill you,'" and "They hit her face and decided the order by playing rock-paper-scissors before raping her."

She continued, "Due to this incident, my daughter was diagnosed with a three-week recovery period at the orthopedic clinic and a two-week recovery period at the obstetrics and gynecology clinic," and appealed, "The perpetrators are sex offenders who committed the serious crime of special rape causing injury and must be severely punished with at least 10 years or life imprisonment."

B's mother also argued, "Juveniles who committed serious crimes are receiving juvenile protection measures simply because they are young," and "The juvenile protection system, which protects vicious criminals instead of victims, must be thoroughly reorganized."

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