Police Chief Jeong Jae-bong, Soonchang Police Chief, said in the reporter room of the Jeonbuk Police Agency on the 11th that the criticism that’the police have exposed the identity of the suspected child abuse reporter’ is “more seriously recognized than any other case”. Reporter Kim Joon-hee
“Mother’s Japanese…misunderstanding in poor Korean language”
“The Japanese mother was not good at Korean, so he misrepresented the hospital staff saying that’Dad pulled the child’ and’Dad threw the child’.”
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The reason for suspicion of child abuse in Sunchang, Jeonbuk
Jeong Jae-bong, Soonchang Police Chief, clarifies at press conference
In November of last year, a doctor in Sunchang-gun, Jeollabuk-do, reported suspected child abuse to the police, a misunderstanding caused by the poor Korean language of a Japanese nationality mother, a police investigation confirmed. Initially, the case caused controversy that “the police exposed the identity of the suspected child abuse reporter.”
Soonchang Police Chief Jeong Jae-bong (Chief Police Officer) said in the press room of the Jeonbuk Police Agency on the 11th, “The case was closed without charge.” Jeong said, “My mother is Japanese and has lived in Korea for 5 years,” and “communication is fine, but I still get confused about a few words.”
Initially, the Sunchang case was settled with no allegations of abuse, but the’Jeong In-i case’, in which a 16-month-old girl died due to abuse of her adoptive parents, has recently emerged as a national issue and has risen again. What happened in Sunchang?
Reporter exposure… Father “Report what you are”
According to the police, Mr. A, a public health officer at Sunchang-gun Health Medical Center, discovered suspected abuse in a 4-year-old child he had examined on November 20 last year and reported it to the police. I heard a story about an egg-sized bump next to a child’s eye, and an employee who was taking a visitor’s body temperature at the entrance of the hospital said, “The mother of the child said,’The father threw the child.
The father of the father complained by phone several times on the day of the incident to Mr. A, who reported. It comes with rants such as “What are you reporting?” and “Why do you treat me as a bad person?” In response, Mr. A appealed to his colleagues, “I was afraid of the threat of my father’s father.” After that, “I received a threatening phone call because my father was informed of my identity due to the mistake of the police box employee who received the report,” and asked the Hearing and Audit Office of the Sunchang Police Station to investigate and censure the police officer.
When the incident became known, it was pointed out that “Isn’t the police’s personal protection and response system for suspected child abuse reporters poor?” According to the Child Abuse Penalty Act, medical personnel and daycare center teachers must report to a child protection agency or an investigative agency when they become aware of or suspect a crime of child abuse while performing their duties. If these reporters fail to report child abuse, they will be fined 5 million won or less.
On the morning of the 11th, a citizen who photographed Jeong-in, installed in front of the Southern District Prosecutors’ Office in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, is touching. On this day, the Korea Child Abuse Prevention Association installed a geunjo wreath and a pinwheel while urged stern punishment for Jeong-in before the trial for her adoptive parents. yunhap news
“The case is closed without allegations of abuse… Continued monitoring”
Jeong, who volunteered to hold a press conference on this day, said, “Due to the recent controversial (Sunchang) incident, there have been doubts about the handling of child abuse reports. I prepared it.”
According to Jeong et al., after receiving the report, the police met the public health doctor who was the reporter at the competent police box to hear the report. The police officer in charge of women and youth at the Sunchang Police Station also called the reporter and asked how he suspected child abuse.
Jeong said, “I met the child in person and investigated the child’s grandparents and birth parents. However, since the suspected abuse was not confirmed, the result was explained to the reporter (public health doctor) by phone call and face to face.” We conducted an investigation on the abuse again with a specialized agency, but we reached a final judgment that it was difficult to admit the allegations.”
Immediately after the treatment, the birth parents did not follow Mr. A’s recommendation to “go to a hospital in Gwangju for a close examination,” but it was investigated that they took the child to an orthopedic clinic in Sunchang, which is close to the house. Jeong said, “Even when I went to the orthopedic clinic, I was diagnosed with’no abnormality’ and was prescribed only antipyretic drugs.” He said, “I also investigated how the child’s mother came to say,’Dad threw the child,’ but I found out that the expression was wrong because I was poor in Korean.
According to Chief Jeong, the mother said, “My father threw the child,” the same as what he said to the hospital staff during the police investigation. The policeman made a hand movement and asked,’Is he caught and threw the child like this?’ and the mother said,’No.’ So I asked again,’Did my dad threw or pulled it?’ and then he said with the aim of “I misrepresented that I was pulled”.
How the child was injured was also disclosed. As a result of the investigation, a wound on the face occurred in the morning while attending kindergarten. With the front door of the apartment open, when the child swarmed, saying,’I don’t want to go to kindergarten,’ the father pulled the child’s arm, which had collapsed on the floor, and the child fell over. In this process, Seojang Jeong explained that the forehead was hit by a horseshoe (door stopper) that fixes the front door, causing a wound on the child’s face.
‘Reporter analogy’ staff referred to the Citizens’ Inspection Committee
“There seems to be no intention to the policeman who mentioned the clues that can infer the identity of the reporter in the process of handling the report case as a result of the prosecution investigation,” said Jeong. “We plan to seek objective judgment on the level of punishment and the level of punishment from outside experts.”
Soonchang = Reporter Kim Junhee [email protected]