South Korea’s largest network of sexual exploitation of the criminal gangs“Since the police group,” the main culprit Jin Luyuan (transliteration)24 in the first trial was sentenced to life in prison. The alleged sexual exploitation of 261 victims, including children and adolescents, by the gang over the past five years has aroused great concern in South Korean society.
According to a report by Yonhap on the 24th, the Seoul Central District Court sentenced Kim Ru-won to life imprisonment on the 24th, it also ordered the disclosure of personal information online for 10 years, the wearing of electronic surveillance equipment for 30 years and restrictions on employment with institutions related to minors. The suspect, 33-year-old Jin Luyuan, was accused of running an encrypted chat room on social platform telegraph from May 2020 to January this year, the report said, organized criminal gangs“Since the police” committed sexual crimes against 261 people, production and distribution of related content video. Prosecutors indicted him in February.
From August 2020 to January this year, Kim committed acts that met the definition of rape against 16 victims, South Korean prosecutors said, the daily economy reported Monday. During this process, 5 of the minors were subjected to violence and 13 were filmed committing the crime. Jin has produced about 1,700 child and adolescent sexual exploitation videos targeting victims and disseminated as many as 260 sexual exploitation videos through social media.
Ten accomplices indicted with Jin were sentenced to between two and four years in prison. In explaining the sentencing, prosecutors said the 10 accomplices were first-time offenders with no criminal record, five were juveniles and most of the remaining defendants were also young. Many accomplices were only involved in the crime under the threat of Jin Luyuan, who was mainly responsible for bribing and co-opting the victims. Most of the crimes were committed by Jin Luyuan, so his sentence was relatively light.
South Korea’s“Joongang Ilbo” said that in recent years, in the“Doctor room”, “N Room” and other cases shocked the country, South Korea’s network of sexual crime is still showing a continuing trend of proliferation. Since 2020, major cyber sexual crimes such as the production and dissemination of deeply faked images and videos of sexual exploitation of minors have continued to increase, according to the Korea Police Service, the annual number of related cases detected also rose from 3,270 to 4,413, an increase of 35 per cent. Especially in the area of minor victims, the number of victims in some cases has far exceeded the number of“Doctor’s Rooms”, which highlights that the problem of sexual violence in cyberspace in South Korea is still severe and spreading to younger ages.
Reported that the face of increasingly covert cyber-crime, the South Korean police in October this year has been launched a year-long“Network of sexual violence focused crackdown” operation. South Korea’s ruling party and government have also repeatedly stressed that it will strengthen digital crime governance from various aspects such as legislation, platform supervision and victim protection to curb the spread of such crimes in cyberspace.