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Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. [연합뉴스]
It was confirmed that Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol gave a special order to the investigation team for the’Jung Ini case’ to review the’application of murder crimes’ against wool.
According to law enforcement officials on the 15th, after returning to work in early December of last year, after returning to work, General Yoon gave a special order to the Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, saying that Jung-in received a report on the case from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office, showing special interest, and “consider the application of murder crimes.” General Yoon said, “Even if a young child died like that, even if there is controversy in precedent, it is good to prosecute him for murder and get the court’s judgment,” he said. “If you do not prosecute, the court will not even have a chance to set a precedent.” It is known to have spoken.
It is reported that Yoon stressed that “we need to take a close look at how such a case is not applicable to murder crimes,” and ordered a joint meeting of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Criminal Department and Department of Science and Technology, as well as an in-depth review of the autopsy report.
Afterwards, the prosecution applied for a change of the complaint in the first trial held on the 13th, applying the charges of murder as a result of a peripheral prosecution and a charge of child abuse and lethality as a preliminary prosecution. The court also approved the request on the same day, and Jung In-yi’s Yang-woon Jang was tried for murder.
On the 13th, when the first trial of the adoptive parents accused of continuing abuse of Jeong In-yang for 16 months leading to death was held, citizens continued protesting with excitement when an appeal vehicle allegedly burned by her mother-in-law was entered at the front gate of the Southern District Court in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul. have. Reporter Kim Seong-ryong
Previously, the police applied the charges of child abuse and lethality under the Special Cases Act on the Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes, and the charges of physical abuse and neglect under the Child Welfare Act in the case of Jung-in, who died 16 months after birth due to the abuse of her wool in October last year. Sent to the prosecution. At the time of the prosecution on December 9 last year, the prosecution also applied child abuse and fatal charges against her mother-in-law, her foster mother, and charges of neglect and aid of child abuse against her husband, Ahn.
However, as Jung In-i died in severe abuse, such as cutting her pancreas and broken ribs, at 16 months of age, public opinion that the crime of murder, not child abuse, should be applied. The statutory sentence for murder is’death punishment, weapon or imprisonment for more than 5 years’, and the statutory sentence for child abuse and fatality is’imprisonment for life or imprisonment for more than 5 years’. However, according to the basic sentence of the Supreme Court’s sentencing committee, the legal profession explained that 10 to 16 years for murder and 4 to 7 years for child abuse and fatality are applied.
Reporter Dayoung Kim [email protected]