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== Cho's Background ==
== Cho's Background ==
[[:ko:조두순|Cho Doo-soon]] was born October 18, 1952.<ref>{{Citation|title=조두순|date=2020-10-05|url=https://ko.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=%EC%A1%B0%EB%91%90%EC%88%9C&oldid=27769314|work=위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전|language=ko|access-date=2020-10-06}}</ref> He dropped out of middle school and in 1970, he committed his first crime, stealing a bicycle. He was given leniency because of his young age and because it was a small scale crime.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=머니투데이|date=2020-09-16|title="인생 전체가 범죄…'전과 18범' 조두순, 화학 거세 주장도" - 머니투데이|url=https://news.mt.co.kr/mtview.php?no=2020091607038235383|access-date=2020-10-06|website=news.mt.co.kr|language=ko}}</ref> In 1972 He was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in a youth detention center for extorting money from a street stall. In 1977 he was sentenced to 8 months in prison for habitual theft.<ref name=":0" /> In 1983 at age 31 he raped a 19 year old woman who worked nearby where he lived, she needed 30 days of treatment to recover. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for this crime.<ref name=":0" /> After his release he was fined several times for various violent crimes, including assaulting a bar hostess.<ref name=":0" /> In 1995 while drinking Cho assaulted a man in his 60s to death because he praised [[Chun Doo-hwan]], a controversial president. Because he was deemed feeble-minded, he was sentenced to 2 years and admitted into a psychiatric hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-11|title="전두환 찬양했다고 때려 죽여"…조두순 출소일 앞두고 과거 사건 재조명 - 유혜지 기자|url=http://www.topstarnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=832986|access-date=2020-10-06|website=톱스타뉴스|language=ko}}</ref> Cho’s only family is his wife, who has nothing but praise for him. Cho’s wife said "Cooking rice and side dishes, cleaning the home and all the household work. … My husband has done it for 20 years...He has never vented his anger and he has been hailed as a polite person."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=조두순 아내 탄원서 "남편, 예의를 아는 사람"|url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/05/30/2019053000411.html|access-date=2020-10-06|website=www.chosun.com|language=ko}}</ref> While married Cho committed 11 out of his 18 total crimes. For most of his crimes he was drunk and gave the excuse that he “does not remember,” Cho’s wife said that he only committed crimes because of alcohol.<ref name=":1" />
[[:ko:조두순|Cho Doo-soon]] was born October 18, 1952.<ref>{{Citation|title=조두순|date=2020-10-05|url=https://ko.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=%EC%A1%B0%EB%91%90%EC%88%9C&oldid=27769314|work=위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전|language=ko|access-date=2020-10-06}}</ref> He dropped out of middle school and in 1970, he committed his first crime, stealing a bicycle. He was given leniency because of his young age and because it was a small scale crime.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=머니투데이|date=2020-09-16|title="인생 전체가 범죄…'전과 18범' 조두순, 화학 거세 주장도" - 머니투데이|url=https://news.mt.co.kr/mtview.php?no=2020091607038235383|access-date=2020-10-06|website=news.mt.co.kr|language=ko}}</ref> In 1972 He was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in a youth detention center for extorting money from a street stall. In 1977 he was sentenced to 8 months in prison for habitual theft.<ref name=":0" /> In 1983 at age 31 he raped a 19 year old woman who worked nearby where he lived, she needed 30 days of treatment to recover. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for this crime.<ref name=":0" /> After his release he was fined several times for various violent crimes, including assaulting a bar hostess.<ref name=":0" /> In 1995 while drinking Cho assaulted a man in his 60s to death because he praised [[Chun Doo-hwan]], a controversial president. Because he was deemed feeble-minded, he was sentenced to 2 years and admitted into a psychiatric hospital.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-11|title="전두환 찬양했다고 때려 죽여"…조두순 출소일 앞두고 과거 사건 재조명 - 유혜지 기자|url=http://www.topstarnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=832986|access-date=2020-10-06|website=톱스타뉴스|language=ko}}</ref> Cho’s only family is his wife, who has nothing but praise for him. Cho’s wife said "Cooking rice and side dishes, cleaning the home and all the household work. … My husband has done it for 20 years...He has never vented his anger and he has been hailed as a polite person."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=조두순 아내 탄원서 "남편, 예의를 아는 사람"|url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/05/30/2019053000411.html|access-date=2020-10-06|website=www.chosun.com|language=ko}}</ref> While married Cho committed 11 out of his 18 total crimes. For most of his crimes he was drunk and gave the excuse that he “does not remember,” Cho’s wife said that he only committed crimes because of alcohol.<ref name=":1" />

== Course of events ==
On December 11, 2008, a female elementary school student Kim Na-young (a false name) (then 8 years old) who was on her way to school was kidnapped and raped by the criminal Cho Doo-soon to the bathroom inside the church. This severely damaged the victim's body. The criminal, Cho Doo-soon (then 56 years old), was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and appealed on the grounds that the sentence was harsh, but all of them were rejected and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The sentence was reduced because the criminal was old and drunk, and his mental and physical weakness was recognized.

=== prison imprisonment ===
The perpetrator charged with rape and injury on January 9, 2009 will be sentenced to life imprisonment on March 4, but will be sentenced to 12 years in prison in the first trial on March 27. In response, the prosecutor in charge did not appeal, and on March 30, the assailant Cho Doo-soon appealed, saying, "The sentence is too heavy," and the appeal was rejected on July 24. Three days later, on the 27th, Cho Doo-soon appealed again, but on September 24 of the same year, the appeal was also rejected. He spent his time in a solitary cell at Cheongsong Prison (now the second prison in North Gyeongsang Province) and moved to Pohang Prison for sexual violence psychological treatment in July 2018.


== Aftermath ==
== Aftermath ==

Revision as of 08:41, 28 October 2020

The Cho Doo-soon Case refers to an assault that took place in Ansan, South-Korea, in December 2008, in which an eight-year-old girl known only as Na-young(fictitious name) was on her way to school when she was kidnapped by 57-year-old Cho Doo-soon, who was drunk at the time. He dragged her to a church's bathroom, saying she had to go to church. Cho took off his pants and had his penis sucked there, but when the victim refused to do so, he hit the victim's face several times with his fist, and the victim started to cry, he bit the victim's cheek with his mouth and strangled the victim to faint. Cho continued to strip the victim's pants and underwear, insert his penis, and rape the victim. Cho raped and beat Nayoung anally, vaginally, and sodomized her. He held her head under water to knock her out again. He left her on the floor with cold water running and left the scene.[1][2] Nayoung was found by her parents and was taken to a hospital. She had injuries to her internal organs, but she survived the incident. Cho left evidence all over the scene and still had her blood on himself when he was arrested.[3] He was sentenced to twelve years in prison.[4][5][6][7][8]

The case sparked outrage and protests involving Na-young's parents and many others. In 2011, R&B singer ALi released a song based on Na-young's story, titled "Nayoungee." The song attracted controversy after being widely criticized, and ALi chose to omit it from her upcoming album.[9][10] She also subsequently issued an apology. ALi then went on to say that the song was also about her own battle with being a rape victim.[11]

The 2013 film Hope is based on this case.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

Cho's Background

Cho Doo-soon was born October 18, 1952.[18] He dropped out of middle school and in 1970, he committed his first crime, stealing a bicycle. He was given leniency because of his young age and because it was a small scale crime.[19] In 1972 He was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in a youth detention center for extorting money from a street stall. In 1977 he was sentenced to 8 months in prison for habitual theft.[19] In 1983 at age 31 he raped a 19 year old woman who worked nearby where he lived, she needed 30 days of treatment to recover. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison for this crime.[19] After his release he was fined several times for various violent crimes, including assaulting a bar hostess.[19] In 1995 while drinking Cho assaulted a man in his 60s to death because he praised Chun Doo-hwan, a controversial president. Because he was deemed feeble-minded, he was sentenced to 2 years and admitted into a psychiatric hospital.[20] Cho’s only family is his wife, who has nothing but praise for him. Cho’s wife said "Cooking rice and side dishes, cleaning the home and all the household work. … My husband has done it for 20 years...He has never vented his anger and he has been hailed as a polite person."[21] While married Cho committed 11 out of his 18 total crimes. For most of his crimes he was drunk and gave the excuse that he “does not remember,” Cho’s wife said that he only committed crimes because of alcohol.[21]

Course of events

On December 11, 2008, a female elementary school student Kim Na-young (a false name) (then 8 years old) who was on her way to school was kidnapped and raped by the criminal Cho Doo-soon to the bathroom inside the church. This severely damaged the victim's body. The criminal, Cho Doo-soon (then 56 years old), was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and appealed on the grounds that the sentence was harsh, but all of them were rejected and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The sentence was reduced because the criminal was old and drunk, and his mental and physical weakness was recognized.

prison imprisonment

The perpetrator charged with rape and injury on January 9, 2009 will be sentenced to life imprisonment on March 4, but will be sentenced to 12 years in prison in the first trial on March 27. In response, the prosecutor in charge did not appeal, and on March 30, the assailant Cho Doo-soon appealed, saying, "The sentence is too heavy," and the appeal was rejected on July 24. Three days later, on the 27th, Cho Doo-soon appealed again, but on September 24 of the same year, the appeal was also rejected. He spent his time in a solitary cell at Cheongsong Prison (now the second prison in North Gyeongsang Province) and moved to Pohang Prison for sexual violence psychological treatment in July 2018.

Aftermath

Nayoung was left with permanent damage to her lower abdomen and was told she would be permanently disabled, she needed 8 months of treatment and had to take trips to Seoul every weekend.[22] She was told she would need to use a colostomy bag for the rest of her life[23] but underwent a successful surgery to implement an artificial anus.[24] Nayoung also suffered from depression and mental stress after the attack.[2] Nayoung, then 8 years old, was made to sit upright with her colostomy bag while testifying in court and explaining the incident which caused more psychological stress. She received 13 million won in compensation because of violations against the interview policy for victims of sexual assault.[25] A year after the assault after receiving psychiatric treatment she was said to have recovered 70 percent. She started attending school again and even attended a hagwon across the street from the place of incidence.[26] According to her father from a report in 2020 she only watches cartoons and avoids news completely to avoid any possible chance of seeing something sexual assault related.[22]

Reaction and influence

Politicians are introducing bills to try and prevent criminals from reoffending for sex crimes against minors. Kim Young-ho from the democratic party said, "The special bill on life imprisonment for criminals who recommit sexual crimes against minors, which I introduced, aims to isolate those who recommit the same crime after release permanently from society." The Ministry of Justice attempted to pass the Protective Supervision Act, which would put more extreme criminals into a facility away from society after their term in prison ends. In 2014 and 2016 the ministry attempted to turn this bill into a law but received backlash for being a violation of human rights.[27] Lawmaker Ko Young-in suggested a law that will restrict sex criminals from going farther than 200 meters from their home. Laws to keep sex criminals like Cho away from facilities with kids and to keep him from being able to drink alcohol have also been suggested in response to this case.[28] In response to Cho's impending release, 2 petitions for getting rid of the laws that weaken prison sentences for crimes committed while drunk and crimes committed by mentally impaired people, have received 876,000 signatures.[29] Both petitions were refused as they said they could not fill laws with passion.[29] In response to the case a book, and movie titled Hope were made in 2013. It won several awards and reignited attention about the case. The film also received a lot of criticism for making profit out of someone's tragedy and bringing attention to someone who wants to live a quiet life.[30]

Trial and controversy

Cho was originally sentenced to life in prison but after Nayoung testified that he smelled like alcohol his sentenced was reduced as he was not sound of mind while commiting the crime his sentence was reduced to 12 years in prison. Cho wrote over 300 times “I am not the type of a sick monster who rapes an 8-year-old girl,” to the judge.[2] Na-young's parents filed a lawsuit against the prosecution for subjecting their daughter to physical and psychological distress. The prosecution questioned her right after she came out of surgery and made her sit upright and answer the same questions four times due to the prosecutors making mistakes while recording. They violated protocol in obtaining testimony from a minor by taping her in public. Prosecution also failed to show the arrest videotape of Cho which would have eliminated the need for her to take the witness stand. In 2011, the government payed 13 million won in compensation to Na-young for violations by the prosecution.[31] After news of his sentencing was released many petitions were left on the Blue House's website calling for a retrial.[3]

Release

Cho is set to be released on December 13, 2020. He will return to Ansan to live with his wife less than 1km away from the victim's house. Nayoung's father has said that he would be willing to take out a loan to give money to Cho so Cho can leave Ansan.[22] Cho said "I am sorry for my crimes, and if I am released, I will live quietly without causing controversy."[32] He will have to wear an ankle monitor and will be under constant surveillance on probation for 7 years. His probation officer will also be able to make random visits to his home.[28] Despite wearing an electronic ankle bracelet there have been cases of criminals in Korea who were able to escape the country.[33] 71 security cameras will be placed around Ansan for the safety of residents who fear Cho's release.[22]

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