Police Send Five Suspects to Prosecution for Forcing Teenage Female Students into Prostitution

Seoul Western Police Station Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Daehyun] The police, who arrested a group of five individuals for luring two teenage female students and forcing them into prostitution, recently sent them to the prosecution.

According to the police on the 15th, the Seoul Western Police Station handed over a total of five suspects to the prosecution on the 9th, including two men in their 20s, two teenage males, and one teenage female, all charged with violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Juveniles Against Sexual Abuse. Among them, three were sent to prosecution in custody, and two were sent without detention.

Earlier, the group is accused of providing lodging and meals to two teenage female students who had left home in April, taking them around various regions nationwide, and forcing and threatening them into prostitution. The police received a report from the victims on the 1st and urgently arrested the group the following day.

In particular, it is reported that they are also accused of selling one of the victims to a man in his 30s for about 1 million won. The police arrested this man involved in human trafficking and applied for an arrest warrant the day before yesterday.

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