Daegu Women's Hotline "Court mistake exposes address of stalking victim"

(Daegu = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Se-jin = A court error led to a situation where the address of a woman who was a victim of stalking was exposed to the perpetrator.

According to the Daegu Women's Hotline on the 27th, the Daegu District Court proceeded with the delivery process on the 23rd by entering the victim's address in the space where the perpetrator's address is written in the decision on provisional stalking measures containing provisions such as prohibition of access.

The victim, who had recently divorced the perpetrator, had moved from where she had been living to another place to escape the stalking.

The court stopped the delivery process after hearing from the victim, who came to the court to check on the progress of the provisional stalking measure application on the day of mailing, that the address was written incorrectly.

However, Daegu Southern Police Station, which was unaware of this, was found to have sent a photo of the court's incorrectly written decision to the offender via text message.

Daegu Women's Hotline pointed out, "The court acknowledged that it was a mistake, but the perpetrator was able to visit the wrongly written address under the suspicion that it was the victim's new address," and added, "The victim is having a hard time due to increased anxiety."

At the same time, he urged, "We must quickly improve the system so that victims of female violence do not return to violent situations and lose their lives due to their information being exposed during litigation."