"Broke into Veranda Screen and Hid"… Stalker Who Met Woman in Game Also Invaded Her Parents' House

A man in his 20s who stalked a woman he met through an online game and even went to her parents' house was arrested by the police.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Choyoung] A man in his 20s who stalked a woman he met in an online game was caught by the police after unlawfully entering the victim's parents' house. It was revealed that the man had previously broken into the victim woman's residence twice.

The Gyeonggi Paju Police Station announced on the 11th that they have booked Kim Mo (21) without detention on charges of trespassing and property damage and are investigating him.

Kim was caught in the act by police who responded to a report of "a man lying down" around 7:30 PM on the 6th, hiding in the space between the veranda and flowerbed of a residence in Paju, Gyeonggi Province.

Upon investigation, it was confirmed that the house Kim broke into was where the parents of a woman in her 20s, A, whom Kim had been stalking, lived.

Kim stated that from around 3 AM on the 3rd, he had been looking for an opportunity to break into the house for three days, and on the 6th, he tore off the veranda screen and hid underneath the veranda.

Kim also broke into A's residence twice, hiding inside the gas valve box, and it is known that he applied foreign substances such as lotion on the nearby closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.

A police official explained, "Since the Stalking Punishment Act, which is about to be enforced, could not be applied, we prioritized applying charges of trespassing."

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