2023-04-18 11:18:05
Jung Myeong-seok (78), president of the Christian Gospel Mission (commonly known as JMS), who was arrested and indicted for sexually assaulting a woman, complained of injustice at the trial, saying, “I have no memory.”
Mr. Jeong, who is accused of semi-rape by a goddess, said at the follow-up trial held on the 18th at the hearing of the 12th Criminal Division of the Daejeon District Court (Chief Judge Na Sang-hoon) that he was “in a situation where he is getting more and more clumsy and has no memory”. I wish I could,” he said.
He said this during the hearing process to hear the position of the accused regarding the prosecution’s request for an additional arrest warrant against him on charges of indecent assault and false accusation. Jeong, who appeared in court wearing a sky-blue shroud, held her left hand over her ear as if she couldn’t hear the judge.
Jeong’s crime, which was additionally prosecuted by the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office, is that he touched a specific body part of a Korean female student while riding a golf cart at the training center in Wolmyeong-dong, Geumsan in August 2018. In May of last year, ‘two foreign creditors who wanted a special relationship did not go as they wanted, so they falsely accused themselves of semi-rape out of a sense of betrayal’ and asked the Chungnam Police Agency to punish them for being innocent.
Prosecutors said, “They committed sexual violence crimes during the recidivism period, and it is acknowledged that they committed the crime again even with an electronic location tracking device.” Judging from his history of escaping overseas, there is a risk of escape, so there is a need for a trial while he is in custody.”
Regarding this, Mr. Jeong’s lawyer said, “It is against the principle of presumption of innocence to file a complaint for ‘reverse accusation’ in a situation where a verdict of the first trial has not even come out.” It’s hard to molest. It is difficult to see it as a reason for extending the period of detention.” The court plans to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant before the expiry date (27th) of Jung’s arrest in the first trial.
Originally, on the day of the trial, the victim’s voice recording file was tried to be verified, but Jung’s lawyer stated that it was unacceptable, and the trial was idle again.
Previously, on the 21st of last month, Jung’s lawyer argued that the witness examination could not be accepted because all 22 witnesses who applied to the court were not adopted, and the trial was disrupted.
Jeong’s lawyer said, “We need to call in a digital expert to verify whether the recorded file is confiscated or whether it has evidence,” but insisted again that “reading is meaningless and must be copied” when the court requested to request a reading to the prosecution.
The next date was set for the 16th of next month, but it is unclear whether a proper trial can proceed because it is in the position to go ahead with the application despite the court’s policy that copying is difficult.
From February 2018 to September 2021, Mr. Jeong harassed or sexually assaulted Mr. A (29), a female citizen of Hong Kong, at the training center in Wolmyeong-dong, Jinsan-myeon, Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, 17 times, and from July 2018 to the end of that year, 5 times at the Geumsan training center. A 30-year-old Australian national was arrested and indicted for sexually harassing him, and is undergoing a trial in the first trial.
Daejeon = Reporter Kang Eun-seon [email protected]
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