“I trained the instructor”…Director in his 40s, who hired students penniless for 4 years, acquitted

A 40-year-old academy director who was sent to prison on charges of hiring students under the pretext of owning shares in the academy and then stealing wages was cleared of the charges.

According to the legal community on the 19th, the Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office decided not to indict Mr. A, in his 40s, who was suspected of fraud and child abuse last May.

Mr. A is accused of deceiving his student B by pretending that he would share shares of the academy for about four years since November 2019, entrusting him with tasks such as lecturing, driving a car, and cleaning the academy, and then failing to pay his wages.

There are also child abuse charges.

The reason is that when Mr. B was a high school student, he took him to a drinking party and encouraged him to drink.

Mr. A denied the charges, saying that it was Mr. B who first expressed his desire to work as an instructor at an academy.

The claim is, “At the time, it was difficult to hire Mr. B right away, so we recommended him to obtain credits through the Credit Bank System until he was 25, and we provided him with instructor training during that period.”

Regarding the child abuse charge, he said, "I heard that Mr. B often drank alcohol when he was in high school, so I just said that I would buy him alcohol in case that happened."

The prosecution dismissed the charges.

In the case of 'non-payment of wages', I believe there was a prior agreement between the two people.

It is judged that Mr. B also agreed to the fact that no separate wages were paid during the period of learning to work as an academy instructor.

Regarding the controversy surrounding the stake, he said, "It is a matter that can be accepted as a difference of interpretation," and "It is difficult to see it as an expression aimed at deceiving the victims."

As for the child abuse charge, it was determined that "taking the statements of other students who drank together at the time into account, it does not appear that the drinking was forced because Mr. B was the only one speaking with a negative connotation."

Attorney Hwang Gyu-hwa of Daeryun Law Firm, who represented Mr. A, explained, "For criminal punishment to be established, it must be proven that it was a false promise with no intention to carry out the promise beyond simple non-fulfillment of the promise," adding, "We obtained an acquittal by comprehensively explaining the relationship between the two sides, the salary system, and the foundation of trust."
 

Jeong Eui-jin (jej88@ikbc.co.kr)

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