Convicted sex offender commits another sex crime
A man who served six years in prison for sexually assaulting a female student at a university dorm in 2013 was put on trial for another crime, this time for taking nude photos of a woman and blackmailing her family.
The defendant is accused of intimidation or compulsion by using photograph, etc., stipulated in Article 14-3 of the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes. He is currently in detention and is to be tried by the Busan District Court.
The defendant is accused of filming and distributing in 2022 nude photos of his female acquaintance, while using the illegal content to blackmail the victim's family.
It was found that the defendant is a repeat sex criminal, having been sentenced to six years in prison, 120 hours of treatment for sexual violence and public release of his personal information for six years in 2014. These punishments were for his 2013 attack on the university student, in which he broke into the university's dormitory at around 2:20 a.m. on Aug. 30, beating and sexually assaulting the victim.
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