'Student Sexual Assault Allegation' Contemporary Dancer Sentenced to Prison in First Trial... Detained in Court

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jung-yoon] A man in his 40s who was accused of sexually assaulting a university student has been sentenced to prison and taken into custody in the first trial.

On the 24th, Judge Cho Guk-in of the Seoul Eastern District Court Criminal Division 9 announced that Cheon Mo (43), who was indicted on charges of sexual assault on a supervised person, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison and taken into custody.

Cheon was prosecuted for allegedly taking a student, whom he met in front of the school for counseling while working as an adjunct professor in the dance department at a university in Seoul in July 2017, to a motel and sexually assaulting her.

The court stated, "The victim had a relationship that could be considered a 'direct student' as she had been under the defendant's guidance since high school," and "the defendant had sufficient status and influence to suppress the victim's free will."

Cheon's side denied the charges, claiming the sexual encounter was consensual, but the court did not accept this. The court explained the sentencing by saying, "The defendant vehemently denied the crime and showed no sincere remorse," but also considered "the fact that the defendant took responsibility for the incident and resigned from his positions as adjunct professor and head of the dance troupe."

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