[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Yeon-ju] A foreign man in his 20s who followed and sexually harassed women walking alone was sentenced to a prison term 10 months longer than the original sentence in the appellate court.
The Ulsan District Court's 1st Criminal Division (Presiding Judge Lee Woo-cheol) announced on the 26th that it sentenced A (28), a Uzbek national, to 1 year and 6 months in prison on appeal for charges of forcible sexual assault.
He was also ordered to have his information disclosed for 3 years and banned from employment at institutions related to children and adolescents for 3 years.
The court stated, "The crime is of a bad nature as the defendant followed the victims, subdued them by choking or knocking them down, and then forcibly sexually assaulted them. Considering that the defendant committed crimes against young women twice within a week, making it difficult to view the acts as accidental, and that the victims are pleading for severe punishment, the original sentence was too lenient," explaining the reason for the sentencing.
A, who was working as a day laborer in Korea with a work visa, was indicted for forcibly sexually assaulting two women in their 20s, including woman B, whom he followed and choked on a bridge while she was walking alone on a trail in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, last December.
Earlier, the first trial court sentenced A to 8 months in prison and banned him from employment at institutions related to children and adolescents for 3 years in March of this year.
The first trial court stated, "The defendant sexually assaulted women walking at night, and the circumstances and methods of the crime were quite bad," and "considered that the victims appeared to have felt significant sexual shame and suffered mental distress."
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