Vocational Teacher Sentenced to 7 Years for Repeated Sexual Assault of Intellectually Disabled Person

A former vocational education teacher in his 50s was sentenced to prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman with an intellectual disability.

According to the legal community on the 15th, the 12th Criminal Division of the Gwangju District Court (presiding judge Kim Sang-gyu) sentenced A (in his 50s), who was indicted for violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Crimes, to seven years in prison.

He was also ordered to complete 80 hours of a sexual violence treatment program and was banned from employment for seven years at institutions related to children and adolescents as well as welfare facilities for the disabled.

A is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting and illegally filming B (female, in her 30s), a person with severe disabilities whom he taught, at a disability protection workshop in Gwangju Metropolitan City from November 2021 to May of last year.

Meanwhile, Dong-gu District in Gwangju Metropolitan City requested an administrative disposition and a legal interpretation from the Ministry of Health and Welfare only two months after receiving the report of the incident.

Amid controversy over the delayed response, the district issued an improvement order in September 2022, which included additional installation of CCTV in the facility.

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