South Korea: Child rapist's release sparks demand for change

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55465099

Man kidnaps, rapes, beats and tortures an 8-year-old girl on the way to school, serves a reduced sentence of 12 years because he was drunk at the time (!), is released and us back living half a mile away from the victim, who received life-changing injuries from the attack (I won't specify what they were here but you can read about it at www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/public-anger-erupts-as-south-koreas-most-notorious-child-rapist-is-released-after-12)

Between this and molka (ubiquitous spy cams in women's toilets, changing rooms, hotel rooms etc.) not being taken seriously, it's not great for girls in South Korea, though I should stress that there's nowhere that really takes rape as seriously as it should. They do have a flourishing radfem movement in South Korea though and the women fighting for their rights take no BS.

I read that it's a society with a very traditional/patriarchal culture. Unmarried women who have babies are expected to give them up for adoption.

It's frustrating not to be able to tell from that report how many men are actually opposed to sex offenders. I don't know whether it's because the BBC can't tell from the Korean names who's male and who's female, whether it's just the ubiquitous gender-neutral reporting, or whether there genuinely are crowds of women and men who hate to see sex crimes treated lightly. And are the important sex crimes those against children, those against women, or both? I suppose the only way to find out is to keep reading articles, and showing demand for more coverage.