Juvenile Trial | Entrustment to Protective Custody Obtained for a Juvenile Under Protection Who Was Indicted During the Probation Period

The client's child (hereinafter the juvenile under protection) had been indicted on a charge of violating the Resident Registration Act.

The juvenile under protection found a resident registration card dropped on the street and immediately went into a bar and ordered alcohol.

The owner of the establishment asked for identification to verify the juvenile's age, and in the process the misuse of the resident registration card was discovered.

As a result, the juvenile under protection was indicted on a charge of violating the Resident Registration Act.

A violation of the Resident Registration Act is an act that breaches the Resident Registration Act, and includes the misuse of a resident registration card and the improper use of a resident registration number.

Below are the representative violations of the Resident Registration Act.

If a charge of violating the Resident Registration Act is established, the offense may be punished by imprisonment for not more than 3 years or a fine not exceeding 30 million won.

The Daeryun juvenile crime attorney argued that the delinquent act had occurred impulsively and that there was little likelihood of the juvenile committing the same or a similar act of delinquency again.

In particular, this incident made the juvenile under protection recognize that drinking alcohol, which a minor should not consume, was the cause of the continued delinquency.

The juvenile under protection has, on the juvenile's own initiative, sought treatment to overcome alcohol dependence and depression and continues to receive medication and other treatment.

The juvenile crime attorney argued the juvenile under protection's efforts to prevent reoffending and requested leniency.

The juvenile under protection was born and raised in a multicultural family, with a Korean father and a Chinese mother.

The father frequently traveled abroad on business, and because the Chinese mother was not fluent in Korean, the juvenile also could not speak Korean properly in early childhood and was often teased by friends.

This incident arose when the juvenile under protection, feeling depressed, experienced a momentary impulse to drink.

The juvenile crime attorney argued that the juvenile under protection had committed the act out of insufficient awareness that the conduct was a criminal offense of violating the Resident Registration Act, and requested leniency.