“I can only think about Jungin all day today.”
There is a growing public consensus over the 16-month adopted child case. This is when the Korean Child Abuse Prevention Association and SBS’I want to know’ production crew started the’I’m sorry Jung In-ah’ challenge.
In particular, on the 2nd, SBS broadcasts specific circumstances until In-yang Jung was abused for a long time and died for a long period of time on the 2nd, and anger is growing over the issue of responsibility for failing to prevent the abuse along with the demand for severe punishment of the abuser.
SBS’I want to know it’ tracked the abuse situation. Listening to experts’ opinions, Jung In-yang added strength that he was abused for a long time. The daycare center teacher and doctor reported to the police three times, but pointed out the situation where they were not accused.
Public opinion seems to have exploded as SBS broadcasts dealing with the case, but public opinion is already infested online.
The 16-month-old adopted child case was a case in which several situations that could prevent child abuse were overlapped, but anger against a social system that was useless.
After Jung In-yang died in October last year, and the incident was known, centering on childcare internet cafes, he raised issues about the cruelty of abuse and the case handling. They looked at the case seriously as if Korean society was on the test bench to deal with child abuse issues.
From the content that I was able to fully recognize the situation of child abuse by looking at the traces of the cafe posts where the perpetrator, Yang Mo, was active, from the video that appeared as an adoptive family on EBS’A Special Family’ last August, the traces of In-yang Jung’s abuse were found. There are many contents of regret and anger. EBS side closed the video after the incident, saying, “The production crew only saw the victim for the first time at a meeting where they visited while covering the family of major performers in a related special documentary, and they have never referred or interviewed the family separately.” While revealing it, he showed affirmation that the blame public opinion sparked.
The regret and resentment of failing to protect Jung In-yang exploded in early December when the prosecution indicted the perpetrator for abuse and death by applying a murder charge, and applying the charges of neglect and abuse of a child against the husband and wife without detention.
He urged the application of the crime of murder by asking,’Should a child who cannot speak even be proved to death?’, and citizens protested in front of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office. There is also a movement to write a petition to the court with content calling for severe punishment for the perpetrator.
In the eyes of public opinion, the power of public authorities, which could not severely punish the child abuse problem, was also an object of anger. The media is not able to keep up with the exploding public opinion, but it is a strong side that the public is angry at the prosecution’s application of the charges of abuse and death.
The most frequently posted content in childcare cafes is that even though they reported to the police station, they could not understand the situation where they were not accused.
In the first daycare center, Jung In-yang found a bruise on her body and reported it. There was a report that Yang Mo, the second perpetrator, left Jung In-yang alone in the car. And the pediatrician who treated In-yang Jung also reported that the abuse was suspected. There were three reports in all, but the police only heard one-sided testimony that’there was no abuse’ from the parents of the perpetrator each time and handled the charges without charge. It was a series of things that were difficult to explain with the inability of the public power alone, but the explanation of how this was possible was extremely insufficient.
In early December, the Seoul Police Agency referred five people, including the person in charge of handling the case, to the disciplinary committee and issued warnings and cautions, but public opinion has not hesitated to accuse him of being an’accomplice’ in the abuse case of Jung In-yang.
Lately, the police and the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a plan to separate and protect the victim from the abuser if the police report more than once due to child abuse, but the distrust in the public authority could not be quenched.
Accordingly, former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min said, “There were numerous Jeong-in in front of him. He said that he would prevent the recurrence of child abuse every time, but it is ashamed and sinful that his young life is exposed as defenseless to the violence of his parents. “I reported it three times, but why couldn’t the police stop Jung In’s death? Did it? “We must dig deeper this time to see if there were any problems with the law, system, surveillance and response system, and prevent child abuse and tragedy. We must fix the wrong laws, systems, and practices.”
“I have been tortured beyond constant abuse at the most sparkling period of my life when a baby takes steps, talks, and learns the fun of eating, and I feel great sadness and anger at why I couldn’t stop our society.”
Mr. A (39) said that he kept paying attention to the incident and said that Jung-in was confused several times a day. Mr. A said, “I am concerned about the unfavorable view of adoption in this case. However, I think a thorough verification is necessary in the adoption process, and a legal system to manage whether children live well in the home after adoption should be established.”
Even now, the media should grasp the point of angry public opinion. In the process of disposing of the police innocence, it is necessary to address the issue more carefully and pay attention to the issues in the legal punishment process of the parents of the perpetrator. In addition, Korean society should provide a solution to the child abuse problem and the media should verify it. This is so that the words of a netizen who said, “I can only think about ○○ all day long” do not repeat.
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