Article: 'ITZY's Lia's classmate that exposed school bullying ruled innocent of defamation charges
Source: Yonhap News
Classmate A that accused ITZY's Lia (21) of school bullying has been ruled innocent.
On the 13th, the Incheon Yeon-su Police Station announced that they have decided not to charge Lia's classmate A for defamation over post about Lia's alleged bullying.
In February, A posted an article in an online community titled 'I'm a victim of school violence by a popular female idol born in 2000.' A then claimed that Lia borrowed money and never paid it back and bullied her friend for no reason. A stated that she confronted Lia on why she kept harassing her friend and revealed that she was traumatized by Lia's constant swearing and abuse.
Afterwards, JYP revealed in a statement, "We will proceed with a lawsuit against this matter. We plan to take strong legal action against acts that damage our artist's reputation and interfere with activities by spreading malicious comments and false facts."
But after receiving JYP's complaint, police have determined it difficult to apply defamation charge against Lia's classmate A. Police stated, "It's difficult to see how A's post was written to slander Lia. She's only expressing what she had experienced."
- [+6,161, -92] If the victim is saying she was assaulted then the attacker should apologize for their mistake. How could she file defamation suit? Such rock bottom character ㅠㅠㅠ. People with tra$h characters are ticking time bombs..
- [+2,308, -49] Looks like Park Jin Young has no qualms about protecting his own no matter how trash they might be ㅡSigh, no one to trust anymore..
- [+1,421, -28] If she's been found innocent of her defamation suit then A needs to file a countersuit for falsely accusing her ~~~
- [+1,044, -35] We need to get rid of the defamation law. Other countries don't consider defamations a legitimate complaint either..
- [+940, -80] Iljins need to be given the death penalty. Does it make sense that she filed a defamation suit? If you think of kids that have suffered and cry tears of blood and took their own lives at the hands of iljins even the death penalty is wasted on tr*sh like them.
- [+570, -3] She had the nerve to file a defamation suit against her after bullying her in school? What a total trash b****.
- [+384, -2] So this is confirmation she was an iljin in school. It was just rumors but the police have basically confirmed its true then.
- [+270, -2] JYP is seriously trash...instead of confirming the facts and apologizing they blindly believed their idol and threatened the victim with a lawsuit...they deserve to flop and go bankrupt.
- [+224, -2] Didn't JYP say he looks at personality first before taking in trainees? And to think he had the audacity to sue the victim. Hul ~ is he teaching them how to do gapjil? He really doesn't know how to reflect on past scandals...this is so disappointing.
- [+144, -6] Disbandment is the only answer now but seeing as he worked so hard to protect her, I think he's too greedy now to throw ITZY away..
Additional source: SBS