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[스포츠서울|김경무전문기자] Cho Jae-beom (40), former coach of the Korean short track team, was sentenced to 13 years in the second trial after being found to have sexually assaulted his disciple Shim Seok-hee (24) several times as a minor. In order to deny the fact of sexual assault, it is shocking to find that Cho is doing ‘victim cosplay’ through high-level media play.
According to the results of the prosecution’s investigation and the court’s first and second trial, Cho had committed serious crimes such as sexual assault, forced molestation, and intimidation 29 times from August 2014 to December 2017, when his disciple was 17 years old (2nd year of high school). already revealed However, before the second trial on September 10, the shocking contents of the ‘attorney’s statement’ reported to the media by the Cho side were later expanded and reproduced through the media, causing Shim Suk-hee to suffer secondary or tertiary damage.
Cho’s side reported the ‘attorney’s statement’ and Cho’s affidavit to the media around August, but the media did not report it. The content is also shocking, because there were concerns about the secondary harm to victims of sexual assault.
However, based on the statement of the lawyer Dispatch, which recently claimed to be an ‘entertainment-specialized online newspaper’, caused a stir by disclosing the SNS conversations with Shim Seok-hee, the coach of the short track national team at the time of the 2020 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in detail.
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One person who is well aware of the situation in the ice world lamented, “Watching the current short track article flow, it is really absurd that Jae-beom Cho is the victim and Seok-hee Shim looks like the perpetrator.” He also said, “I don’t know if this situation is right for the media to write down these things that a person who has been sentenced to 13 years for sexual assault is doing like a poop before the Supreme Court appeals.”
It was revealed that Cho’s lawyer tried to attack Shim Suk-hee by playing the media before the second trial with the results of Shim Suk-hee’s cell phone forensic received from the prosecution in terms of defense rights. Cho’s side even claimed the second offense, such as talking about Shim Suk-hee’s ‘free-spirited attitude’ and ‘sexual disorder’, through the defense statement, and even insisted that Cho was not a grooming rapist and was innocent.
However, the Suwon High Court overturned the 10 years and 6 months of the original judgment and sentenced him to 13 years in prison at the appeals trial against Cho, who was arrested and charged with ‘violation of the Sexual Protection Act’ (rape, etc.). The court again sentenced the victim to a severe sentence, saying that Cho was doing the second harm to the victim. Jo was shocked when it was revealed that he had sexually assaulted his student in seven places, including Taereung and Jincheon Athletes’ Villages and the Korea National University of Sports Ice Rink.
Through this incident, it has been revealed that some short track coaches have committed criminal acts against athletes. An official in the ice skating world lamented, “Not only in the ice rink, but also in other sports, there are even sayings that some leaders are committing grooming and sexual assault to control female athletes.”
Shim Seok-hee, who had been sexually assaulted by Mr. Cho since she was a minor, has turned from a Korean short track speed skater to a bad-tempered athlete. It is even sadder and bittersweet because of the fall of a star player who has not received proper character education from his teachers (coachs) since childhood and was tamed by such a vicious coach.
Athletes who lived like ‘exercise machines’ for one goal of gold medal. What on earth did the coaches teach them? Is the coach of the national team sane when he shares social media conversations with the players that slander other athletes during the Olympics? How can a coach who steers players and guides them on the right path can do that… .
Not only was it not enough that he groomed and raped his student, but he was astonished by the action of a short track coach who went out to kill his student for his own life. kkm100@sportsseoul.com
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