"Confident" Revealed to Be a '10-Year-Old Rape Case' Long-Unsolved Case Solved... 5 Years Imprisonment

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[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Choyoung] The perpetrator of a decade-old unsolved rape case was caught through scientific investigation using genetic analysis.

On the 8th, according to the legal community, the 11th Criminal Division of the Daejeon District Court (Presiding Judge Kim Yongchan) sentenced A (36) to five years in prison on charges of rape causing injury, theft, attempted theft, and embezzlement of lost property. A five-year employment restriction was also ordered for child and youth-related institutions and welfare facilities for the disabled.

A was caught on January 21 last year at around 4:40 p.m. for stealing 120,000 won in cash from a vehicle parked with its door unlocked in an apartment parking lot in Seo-gu, Daejeon.

While investigating A’s other crimes, the police collected his DNA and requested an analysis. The results matched the DNA of the rapist found on the underwear of the victim in the 2009 rape causing injury case.

The case involved a 26-year-old woman who was assaulted and sexually assaulted by a man wielding a weapon while passing through an empty lot in Dong-gu, Daejeon, on the night of November 11, 2009. The perpetrator forced the victim to lie face down to avoid revealing his face, committed the crime, and fled. Although the police responded to the victim’s report and questioned people nearby, they could not identify the suspect, leaving the case unsolved for a long time.

After more than ten years as an unsolved case, the suspect in the rape causing injury case was identified as A, finally providing a breakthrough in the investigation.

Meanwhile, during the investigation, A cooperated with DNA collection, claiming to be "innocent." When additional charges were revealed, he denied the allegations, stating that he "had consensual sex with the victim," but the court did not accept this.

The court sentenced A to five years in prison, stating, "He appears to have a significantly weak sense of lawfulness, having committed rape causing injury to a woman and stealing valuables from a vehicle."

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