The same judge that acquitted Goo Hara's ex and Jang Ja Yeon's assailant will take on "Nth Room" case.
On the 23rd, MBC's 'PD Notebook' drew attention for covering the handling of sex crime rulings and gender sensitivity of judges that rule on sex crimes contrary to the public's legal sentiment.
Recently, a public petition was filed against Judge A in charge of "Nth Room case." The petitioner asked "for a change in the judge" writing that "the same judge that ruled Goo Hara's ex-boyfriend and Jang Ja Yeon's assailant innocent is the judge assigned to the Nth Room case."
However, this wasn't just a matter involving Judge A. Reportedly, over the past decade, 41.4% of all sex crime rulings received suspended sentences with 71.6% of the criminals avoiding prison. Son Jung-woo who ran the worlds largest child molka site received a 1.5 yr prison sentence in Korea when he would've received at least 15 years in the U.S, sparking criticism that Korea is lenient with sex crimes.
According to 'PD Note', the biggest factor in reducing sentences is agreement with victims as evident in actor Kang Ji-hwan's sexual assault case. Other criminals are using more creative methods like obtaining "psychiatric records" and citing "serious reflection."
Another factor is gender insensitivity. One judge openly expressed his values during trial stating that "it was morally problematic for women to drink and have sex."
Lawyer Kwon In-sook stated, "the court's opinion of women is usually the key to ruling."
- [+2,571, -42] Judicial distrust is ultimately caused by judges like him
- [+2,349, -50] Our country is like this because of judges and prosecutors
- [+2,166, -54] In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the first job that should be replaced by AI is judges. There's been lots of times where two judges will give two completely different sentences to similar cases just because they're judging them subjectively.
- [+113, -4] That same judge that declared him innocent? Wow, are they crazy? What are they thinking giving him the Nth Room case?
- [+83, -6] The only way to make these judges more aware of these sentences is if their family members get to suffer the same crimes..no?
- [+82, -3] This judge needs to be checked for mental illness..
- [+77, -3] This judge basically killed Goo Hara
- [+51, -1] All these judges cut themselves off from society to study ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ and yet we're asking them to judge the world through words from a legal book ㅋㅋㅋ