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Former professor gets prison sentence for habitual sexual molestation

Former professor gets prison sentence for habitual sexual molestation

Posted May. 15, 2015 07:19,   

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Judge Park Jae-gyeong at Seoul Northern District Court sentenced two and a half years in prison to former Seoul National University Professor Kang Seok-jin, who was indicted for sexual molestation charges, saying, “Kang is judged to have habitually committed crime to multiple victims.” The judge also ordered Kang to take 160 hours of education on sexual violence prevention, and public disclosure of his profile as sexual offender for three years. However the court only accepted his charges for seven out of nine students who claimed to have suffered from his harassing.

“It is a crime that is hardly understandable, in which former Prof. Kang, who was respected by students as Seoul National University professor, sexually harassed a multiple number of his students,” the court said. “It is inevitable to give him a jail sentence because his acts are premeditated crimes that he committed by using the relationship of personal trust.”

Kang claimed, “I admit acts of sexual molestation but whether my acts were habitual or not would require legal review and judgment.” Kang sought to contact the victims in an attempt to secure compromised settlement through compensation before the trial, but he was only able to settle dispute with one of the victims.

Kang was indicted on December 22 last year for the charges that he had sexually molested a total of nine students (habitual sexual molestation), including graduate students, graduates of his department, and members of a student club he supervised, between 2008 and July last year. His university fired the disgraced mathematics professor last month.



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