Assistance from the Anyang Law Office | Anyang Law Office Represents a Client Who Suffered Child Abuse and Assault in Filing a Complaint, Resulting in a Sentence of Imprisonment for the Accused

🔗Child abuse means abusing a child under the age of 18.

Specifically, it includes acts of violence and harm by an adult, including a guardian, that damage a child's health or welfare or hinder the child's normal development.

These include physical abuse that directly inflicts harm, emotional abuse that inflicts harm verbally or emotionally, sexual abuse for sexual purposes, and neglect, which is the failure to fulfill normal duties of care. In such cases, the offender is subject to imprisonment with labor for up to five years or to a fine of up to 30 million won.

If the offender causes death through acts such as assault and bodily injury, the offender is subject to imprisonment with labor for at least five years or to life imprisonment, and if the offender commits an abuse crime and kills the victim, the offender is subject to imprisonment with labor for at least seven years, the death penalty, or life imprisonment.

The Anyang attorney's office submitted, as evidence, a diary that the client had kept beginning from the time when the client was first abused.

The client's diary, submitted by the Anyang attorney, described in great detail the circumstances and degree of the abuse the client suffered.

The accused had continued the abuse for about seven years, beginning when the client was in the sixth grade of elementary school.

The Anyang attorney argued that the accused's offense was highly malicious and demanded strong criminal punishment.

The client who came to the Anyang attorney's office had spent most of his childhood subjected to physical and emotional abuse.

The Anyang attorney argued that the accused had abused the victim over a long period, and that the act of abusing young children who could not defend themselves could not be tolerated.

The Anyang attorney's office emphasized that the client had been exposed to abuse throughout his childhood and was still suffering from psychological trauma to this day, and demanded severe punishment.