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Former coach Jae-beom Cho, who finished the appeal hearing held in Suwon District Law on February 23, 2019. [뉴스1]
Former national team coach Cho Jae-beom was sentenced to 10 years in prison, who was handed over to trial on charges of committing a sexual crime for three years against a Korean female short track star, Shim Seok-hee.
On the 21st, the 15th Criminal Division of the Suwon District Act (Judge Hyu-ok Cho) sentenced Cho, who was charged with violating the Act on Sexual Protection of Children and Adolescents (Rape etc. In addition, the Ministry of Justice restricted Cho to work in child and adolescent institutions, welfare facilities for the disabled, and child-related institutions for 7 years, along with completing a 200-hour sexual violence treatment program.
From August 2014 when Shim was a sophomore in high school to December 2017, just before the opening of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Cho accused him of sexual assault or forcibly harassing him 30 times in seven locations, including Taereung and Jincheon athletes’ villages and the ice rink of Korea Sports University. Are receiving. The prosecution indicted the charges prior to 2016, when Cho’s crime was a high school student, for violating the Act on Sexual Protection of Children and Adolescents.
Apart from sexual crimes, Cho was handed over to trial for injuring Sim by habitual assaulting and injured, and was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison at an appeals trial in January 2019, and sentenced to prison.
Earlier, the prosecution sentenced to 20 years in prison, saying, “The defendant denies the charges even after sexual assault and harassment of the victim dozens of times, and the crime is quite bad.” In addition, they requested a restriction on employment for 10 years, probation for 5 years, and restriction on residence.
In his final statement at the time, Mr. Cho claimed innocence, saying, “I admit that I was violent and violent in the course of guidance, but it was for disciplinary purposes, and I have never committed a sexual crime.”
Reporter Dayoung Kim [email protected]