Academic qualifications can filter the scum, but not the scum......
At around 8:50 p.m. on the 8th of this month, the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for A, a 25-year-old male college student, who was suspected of killing his girlfriend. A studied medicine at a famous university in Seoul, and it is said that he still got a perfect score in the college entrance examination.
At around 3 p.m. on the 6th of this month, A bought the murder weapon in advance at a large supermarket in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, and then called the victim to the roof of a movie theater near Gangnam Station of Subway Line 2 in Seocho-gu, Seoul under the pretext that he wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the building.
When the victim arrived, he brutally aimed the murder weapon at the victim, who eventually bled to death.
When leaving the scene of the crime, A met the police who were dispatched after receiving a report that "someone was going to jump off the building". When the police tried to take him away from the scene, A said that he had left the bag on the roof, and when he returned to the scene, the police found the victim who had died, so they urgently arrested A.
When being investigated by the police, A said that it was because the victim proposed to break up that he committed the crime.
Lee so-jing, a professor at the Department of Criminal Psychology at Gyeonggi National University, said that "A is not a typical crime of planned homicide" and that "he may have mental problems."
"In a typical crime of planned homicide, the perpetrator usually dreams of committing the perfect crime, but the perpetrator of this incident took the initiative to expose his crime to the police, which is very special," Professor Li said. If he hadn't told the police 'dropped something', the police would have delayed the time to find the victim's body, and he might have had some time to escape. ”
After the media reported A's crime, he received great attention because he was a medical student with a perfect score in the college entrance examination.
Korean netizens said angrily: "Although the crime is serious, he is a promising medical student who is introspecting, so his sentence is commuted!" This kind of speechless situation will not happen again", "When will the profession of doctor be above the law", "The news keeps emphasizing that he has a perfect score in the college entrance examination and that he is a medical student, is it necessary to give him privileges", "Medical students are not his exculpatory charms, and medical murderers should be punished by one degree"......
Under the indignation of Korean netizens, A's identity information was exposed, and the photos with the victim in the past were also picked up by netizens.
A netizen who claimed to be the victim's sister disclosed A's real name in the comment section of the Instagram account suspected of being the victim, and wrote: "That day, my sister proposed to the perpetrator to break up, and then the perpetrator said that she was going to commit suicide and jump from the roof", "The kind-hearted sister fell into the trap of planned murder in order to prevent the perpetrator from committing suicide", "Our family is now living in pain every day, in order to let my sister die, in order to prevent my sister's identity information from being spread, I wanted to delete her account, but I couldn't delete it because it always went wrong, so I hope you can refrain from speculating about your sister."
According to statistics, the South Korean police received as many as 14,000 reports of dating violence and dating homicide last year, and according to the characteristics of dating violence, there should be more actual cases that have not been reported. Although dating violence is very common, only perpetrators with a "special" identity like A make the news.
Of the 14,000 dating violence and dating homicide cases last year, only 310 were actually detained for investigation, a rate of about 2.22 percent.
Lee Eun-yi, a sex crime lawyer in South Korea, said: "The law is ultimately the result of the social climate and culture, and dating violence is often recognized as a private matter and as an occasional incident caused by anger, so the relevant laws and regulations have not been changed and improved." The lack of relevant laws and weak penalties are one of the important reasons for the increase in dating violence. ”
Today, a spokesperson for South Korea's Ministry of Women and Families said that they will use this case as an opportunity to dig up and improve the blind spots in policies related to dating violence.
I really hope that A can get the punishment he deserves, instead of being commuted because he is a medical student with a bright future as Korean netizens expected......