[Special (Aggravated) Bodily Injury Complaint Representation Case] Daeryun Represented the Complaint for Special (Aggravated) Bodily Injury, and the Perpetrator Received an Actual Custodial Sentence

This is the story of how the client sought out Daeryun's criminal attorney and requested assistance in filing a complaint.

After a senior colleague suddenly quit, the client was left to handle all of the work alone, and the client was assaulted several times by a superior on the grounds of being inexperienced at the work.

The superior's assaults were frequent, occurring about three or four times a week, and the verbal abuse that followed was also serious.

Furthermore, having been struck on the head until a clothes hanger broke and struck on the buttocks and head until the shaft of a broom broke, the client suffered an injury requiring approximately six weeks of treatment and even received a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The client's parents, who discovered the client's severe injuries, were shocked and immediately decided to file a criminal complaint, and they requested that Daeryun represent them in filing the complaint.

We will explain the statutes related to the charges applied to the perpetrator, including special (aggravated) bodily injury.

■ Special (Aggravated) Bodily Injury and Assault

Among the most common offenses in criminal cases are “assault” and “infliction of bodily injury.”

Assault is established when a person intentionally exercises physical force against another and thereby causes harm,

and infliction of bodily injury is the case in which the exercise of physical force in an assault impairs the bodily or physiological functions of the other person.

Then what is special (aggravated) bodily injury?

This is the case in which a person inflicts bodily injury on another by using a tool or through the joint planning of two or more persons.

It was emphasized that the perpetrator assaulted the victim, the client, a total of fourteen times, that the perpetrator assaulted the client with a dangerous object, a wooden clothes hanger, until it broke, and kicked the client, and that the degree of the assault was serious.

It was emphasized that this caused not only physical harm but also significant psychological harm to the client, and that the psychological shock to the parents who witnessed it was also serious.

It was also emphasized that other employees who worked together were petitioning for the perpetrator to be severely punished.

The client's parents learned of the perpetrator's offense upon seeing their daughter's face, which was severely bruised and swollen.

When they began to question and press the perpetrator about the offense, it was emphasized that the perpetrator intimidated the client by saying, “My father holds a high government post, so do you really want to make this a big deal?” and then “if you tell the truth, I will not let your parents off easy,” thereby threatening the client.

Furthermore, it was emphasized that there was also an instance in which the perpetrator, causing the client—who had bruises on her face, neck, and elsewhere from being beaten by the perpetrator and was unable to resist—coerced her into saying that the bruises were not caused by the perpetrator but rather that “they were from a traffic accident while riding a bicycle” or “they were bruises from a skin procedure.”