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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Hyung-bin = A former National Intelligence Service official charged with sexually harassing a consulate employee while working at the Korean Consulate General in Los Angeles (LA) was sentenced to a fine in the first trial.
On the 31st, Judge Lim Gwang-ho, the 20th criminal in the Seoul Central District Court, sentenced Mr. A to a fine of 10 million won. He also ordered the completion of a 40-hour sexual assault treatment program.
After a dinner in June 2020, when Mr. A was dispatched to the Consulate General of Los Angeles and served as a deputy consul-general, Mr. A was sued by the local police for sexually harassing Mr. B, a contract employee of the consulate.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs repatriated Mr. A to Korea, and the prosecution sent the case to trial on charges of forced molestation, saying that Mr. A had made unnecessary physical contact with Mr. B, who was drunk on two occasions.
Person A denied the charges, saying, “It does not conform to the concept of sexual harassment, and there was no intent to commit a crime.”
The court said, “The actions of the accused toward the victim can be clearly confirmed through CCTV.”
“This goes far beyond the level of caring for or helping a drunken victim, and it seems to be an act that causes sexual shame to an objective public, that is, indecent assault,” he said.
However, he applied the charge of quasi-forced molestation, saying that A did not appear to have sexually assaulted him by force, only using his weak mental and physical strength and inability to resist.
The prosecution also included two more crimes, including the charge that Mr. A touched Mr. B’s breast, but this was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
The court pointed out that “the crime was very bad because he committed a crime against a drunken victim at a dinner party he presided over”, but the degree of sexual harassment was not too heavy, that Mr. He said that the sentence was decided in consideration of the
A retired from the National Intelligence Service last year.
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