
AI-generated summary
제주지법 형사2부는 아동·청소년의 성보호에 관한 법률 위반과 미성년자의제강간 등 혐의로 불구속기소 된 20대 A씨에게 징역 3년을 선고하고 법정구속했다. A씨는 지난해 1월 만 15세 미만인 피해자 B양을 간음하고 성적 수치심을 유발하는 대화를 반복한 혐의 등으로 재판에 넘겨졌다. B양을 포함해 지난해 1∼3월 아동·청소년 6명을 대상으로 성착취물을 제작한 혐의도 있다.
미성년자를 간음하고 성착취물까지 만든 20대가 실형에 처해졌다.
제주지법 형사2부(재판장 서범욱 부장판사)는 12일 아동·청소년의 성보호에 관한 법률 위반과 미성년자의제강간 등 혐의로 불구속기소 된 20대 A씨에게 징역 3년을 선고하고 A씨를 법정구속했다.
80시간의 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수와 아동·청소년·장애인 관련 기관 10년간 취업 제한 등도 명했다.
A씨는 지난해 1월 만 15세 미만인 피해자 B양을 간음하고 성적 수치심을 유발하는 대화를 반복한 혐의 등으로 재판에 넘겨졌다.
B양을 포함해 지난해 1∼3월 아동·청소년 6명을 대상으로 성착취물을 제작한 혐의도 있다.
A씨는 B양에 대한 범행은 인정했으나, 나머지 성착취물 제작 피해자 5명에 대해서는 아동·청소년임이 명백하게 인식되지 않는다며 혐의를 부인했다.
그러나 재판부는 "나머지 피해자 5명도 모두 생김새, 체격, 신체 발육 등 외관상 의심 없이 명백하게 아동·청소년으로 인식된다"며 공소사실을 모두 유죄로 판단했다.
재판부는 "B양과는 합의해 처벌불원 의사가 제출됐고, 성 착취물이 제3자에게 유포됐다는 자료는 없다"며 "그러나 다수의 아동·청소년을 대상으로 범행했고, B양에게 금전적 대가를 제시해 성적 행위에 끌어들여 비난 가능성이 매우 크며, 피해자가 아동·청소년에 해당하는지를 다퉈 잘못을 진지하게 반성하고 있는지 의문이 든다"고 밝혔다.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
A씨가 형사 재판에 불복하여 항소할 가능성이 있다.
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A 15-year-old woman was murdered by a man in his 50s at a shared lodging business in Jeongneung-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul. The victim was under the care of a youth shelter, and the shelter recognized the conflict and sexual exploitation within the family and reported the victim missing to the police, but she was found dead.

The Seoul Central District Court sentenced three members of a criminal ring to prison terms for collaborating with North Korean hackers to create and distribute illegal gambling websites in South Korea. One member received four years in prison and a four-year suspension of qualifications, while two others received three years each, with one also receiving a three-year suspension. The ringleader, surnamed Kim, was previously sentenced to five years and earned about 23.5 billion won (US$17.6 million) from selling 16 illegal gambling sites between 2022 and 2024, transferring over 7 billion won to North Korean hackers.

A woman in her 40s was arrested by the police on suspicion of injuring her sister by swinging a weapon at an apartment in Mok-dong, Seoul. It was found that the victim had no life-threatening injuries and that the perpetrator was not drunk or mentally ill.

A man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old girl in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul. The police detected the circumstances of a planned crime, such as the pre-purchase of a weapon and the abandonment of evidence after the crime, and applied for an arrest warrant. They are investigating the motive for the murder through the deployment of a profiler and an autopsy.

The Financial Supervisory Service has issued a 'caution' consumer alert level regarding voice phishing methods that impersonate community center employees, bank branch managers, etc. as relays. The victim transferred 100 million won to the fraudster in three days, and the Financial Supervisory Service requested direct confirmation through the Government Civil Service Information Call Center (110).

As it became known that a teenage girl who was murdered in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul was investigated for theft along with the killer's family, calls were made to strengthen the protection network for youth outside of school. In a survey by the Korea Youth Policy Institute, 10.3% of 87 out-of-school youth responded that they had experienced difficulties of being forced or threatened to commit crimes by people around them. According to a report by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Korea Women's Human Rights Agency, among the 1,226 children and adolescents who were victims of sexual exploitation last year, 'conditional encounters' was the most common type of victim with 942 cases (37.9%). The damage route was online media such as chatting apps and SNS, accounting for 82.7%.