"Teenagers Prosecuted for Locking and Beating Intellectually Disabled Student in Motel After Pouring Toilet Water and Filming Video... 'Because It Seemed Like They Were Gossiping'"

Two teenagers accused of gang assaulting a high school girl with intellectual disabilities at a motel are entering the Incheon District Court to undergo a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing).
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[Asia Economy Reporter Na Yae-eun] Five teenagers who collectively assaulted a female high school student with a level 3 intellectual disability at a motel in Incheon have been brought to trial.

The Women and Children Crime Investigation Division of the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Kim Bong-jun) announced on the 20th that A (17) and B (17) were indicted in custody on charges of joint injury, joint confinement, joint assault, and joint coercion under the Act on the Punishment of Violent Acts. The prosecution indicted C (16), who is charged with joint injury under the Act on the Punishment of Violent Acts, and two other teenagers suspected of joint confinement or aiding joint injury without detention.

A and the other four are accused of brutally assaulting the intellectually disabled victim D (16) around 9 p.m. on the 16th of last month at a motel in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, causing severe injuries to her face and other areas.

At the time, D's mother, unable to contact her daughter, used a smartphone app to check her location and found the motel. She discovered her daughter naked and covered in various filth. It was reported that D's eyes, nose, and ears were severely swollen due to the assault.

A and B either dropped out or were expelled after entering high school. Although A and the others never attended the same school as D, they were acquaintances through friends.

It was also reported that among the five teenagers involved in the crime, A and B assaulted D at a motel on the 12th of the same month.

On the 20th of last month, the mother of the victim student posted a petition on the Blue House National Petition Board urging strict punishment for the perpetrators. Photo by Blue House National Petition Board capture.

Last month, after A was booked, D's mother posted on the Blue House National Petition Board titled "My 17-year-old daughter was collectively confined and assaulted at a motel."

She expressed her feelings on the Blue House National Petition Board, stating, "A and others stripped my daughter and beat her, pouring rinse, shampoo, bananas, ashtrays, chewed gum, and toilet water over her head, even filming videos." She added, "Even as I write this, tears blur my vision and my heart is torn apart."

The prosecution conducted supplementary investigations after the five suspects were transferred from the police on the 1st of this month, extended the detention period for further questioning, and then brought them to trial. Some of the perpetrators previously claimed to the police that they assaulted D because they thought she was spreading bad rumors about them.

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