'Company Employee Watchman, Serving as n번방 Gateway, Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison'

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] Jeon Mo (39), an office worker who used the ID 'Watchman' and acted as a gateway for the 'n번방' (n-bunbang) case distributing sexual exploitation material of minors, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison.

The Supreme Court's 3rd Division (Presiding Justice Lee Heung-gu) on the 30th upheld the original sentence of 7 years imprisonment in the final appeal trial of Jeon, who was charged with violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, among other charges.

The court stated, "There is no error in the original judgment that exceeded the limits of free evaluation of evidence or misinterpreted the law regarding the violation of the Sexual Violence Punishment Act (filming using cameras, etc.)."

Jeon was prosecuted for sharing approximately 10,000 obscene materials over five months from April 2019 by linking other chat rooms on Telegram.

Investigations revealed that the links to obscene material chat rooms shared by Jeon included about 100 photos and videos related to children and adolescents. He was initially prosecuted in 2019 for operating a pornography site and was additionally charged last February for offenses related to the 'n번방' case.

The first and second trials sentenced Jeon to 7 years in prison. Jeon appealed, but the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal.

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