Cafe Female Owner Witnesses '4-Hour Obscene Act Man' Ultimately Surrenders: "Please Show Leniency"

Incheon Michuhol Police Station "Suspected of Indecent Exposure at Performance"

A man in his 40s who engaged in obscene acts for four hours at a cafe run by a woman alone turned himself in when the police began an investigation.

According to the police on the 25th, the Michuhol Police Station in Incheon booked Mr. A without detention on charges of public obscenity. The public obscenity charge stipulates that anyone who publicly commits obscene acts may be punished by imprisonment for up to one year, or a fine, detention, or penalty not exceeding 5 million won.

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Mr. A is suspected of staying for four hours and committing obscene acts at a cafe in Michuhol-gu, Incheon, on the afternoon of the 10th.

At the time, the female owner who was working alone at the cafe discovered Mr. A committing obscene acts while reviewing CCTV footage and reported it to 112 the next day.

The owner also shared this victimization experience on an online community on the 22nd.

The owner explained, “He came right after lunch during heavy rain (a quiet time), ordered a warm cafe latte, three bottles of beer, and a milk tea, and stayed for four hours. Since there were no other customers, I felt thankful. I was sitting in the kitchen looking at my phone because there were few customers.”

Then she said she suddenly felt something was off. “I checked the CCTV and saw the customer repeatedly looking at me while placing his foldable phone bent on the table. He was completely turning his body away and watching, so I thought it was strange.”

She said, “I sent a screenshot of the CCTV to my younger sibling saying, ‘A customer who sometimes comes keeps looking at me,’ and my sibling asked, ‘Why are his hands like that?’ Upon rechecking the CCTV, we discovered the man was committing obscene acts alone.”

As the post written by the owner spread widely through media reports and the police began an investigation, Mr. A voluntarily appeared at the police station on the 23rd and was questioned. It is known that Mr. A pleaded for leniency.

Since the owner did not witness the obscene acts directly but found out through CCTV, she became a witness, not a victim, in the police investigation.

The police plan to conduct additional investigations into whether Mr. A has other offenses based on the owner’s statement that “he was a customer who often came to the cafe.”

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