Foreign National Who Assaulted a Middle School Girl After She Fled in Shock from a "Let's Have Sex" Translation App

Prosecutors Seek 9-Year Prison Sentence for Two Liberian Officials

Charges of Sexual Assault and Detention... Claiming Immunity and Racism

The prosecution has requested a 9-year prison sentence for two Liberian government officials accused of luring two female middle school students to a hotel in Busan last year and sexually assaulting them.

It is reported that they used a translation app to demand sexual relations, and when the girls tried to escape, they were caught and sexually assaulted. They resisted police investigations by claiming diplomatic immunity and racial discrimination.

According to the Busan District Court on the 14th, at the recent sentencing hearing presided over by Criminal Division 5 (Chief Judge Park Mu-young), the prosecution demanded 9 years of imprisonment each for Mr. A in his 50s and Mr. B in his 30s, both Liberian officials.

They were indicted on charges including violation of the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes (special rape, quasi-rape, forced molestation) and joint confinement.

On September 22 last year, around 7:30 p.m., they lured two female middle school students passing by Busan Station to a hotel room where they were staying by promising delicious food and alcohol.

When they used a phone translation app to demand sexual relations, the two girls refused and went outside the room to seek help from acquaintances but were soon brought back to the room.

Mr. A and Mr. B repeatedly sexually assaulted, quasi-raped, and forcibly molested the victims in the room. At around 10:52 p.m. that day, when acquaintances who had been contacted by the victims knocked on the door, Mr. A and Mr. B shouted and blocked the entrance, confining the girls inside.

They denied the prosecution's allegations and claimed that the sexual relations were consensual with the victims.

Mr. A and Mr. B visited Busan to attend an educational program of the ‘Korea Maritime Week’ event jointly hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the International Maritime Organization.

When arrested by the police, they claimed diplomatic immunity by presenting diplomatic passports, but the police determined that they were not covered by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations because they were not diplomats assigned to work domestically and proceeded with detention and investigation.

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