[Breaking] Supreme Court Confirms Guilt of Temporary Female Teacher for 11 Sexual Acts with 17-Year-Old Student

A married female teacher in her 30s, who first approached a male student at the high school where she worked as a contract teacher and then engaged in multiple inappropriate sexual relations, has been sentenced to a suspended prison term.

The teacher argued that since the sexual relations were consensual with the student, it could not be considered 'sexual child abuse,' but this claim was not accepted.

On the 29th, the Supreme Court's First Division (Presiding Justice Seo Kyung-hwan) upheld the lower court's ruling in the appeal trial of Ms. A (female, 32), who was charged with child abuse under the Act on the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes (Child Abuse Punishment Act) as a worker at a child welfare facility. She was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison with a 3-year suspension, ordered to attend 40 hours of child abuse recidivism prevention lectures, and prohibited from employment at child-related institutions, youth-related institutions, and disability-related institutions for 5 years.

The court stated the reason for dismissing Ms. A's appeal was that "there was no error in the lower court's ruling by failing to conduct necessary hearings, violating the rules of logic and experience, exceeding the limits of free evaluation of evidence, or misinterpreting the legal principles regarding 'sexual abuse acts' under Article 17, Clause 2 of the former Child Welfare Act."

Ms. A, who worked as a contract teacher at a high school in Daegu from March to July 2022, was tried on charges of having sexual intercourse or similar sexual acts a total of 11 times with Mr. B (male, then 17 years old), who was a second-year high school student at the time, from mid-May to June 22, 2022.

This case became public after Ms. A's husband, who noticed her affair, filed a complaint through the National Petition System and revealed KakaoTalk conversations on online communities.

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