On June 30th, five junior high school students were reported to the police for assaulting a fellow 14-year-old student in an alleyway with shards of glass and a chair. This disturbing act of violence that was recorded and later shared on various social media platforms with a picture of the victim bloodied and bruised is currently under fire.
Now, the victim is healing from her wounds in the hospital and is suffering from mental trauma.
“When I see people,” she says,“I think they are the bullies who attacked me, and I would wake up a lot during the night because my head starts to hurt.”
She also claims that the students have sexually assaulted her as well, and this was ultimately confirmed when the news of the first attack was revealed to the public. This incident, which has recently caught fire, was actually the second attack. Three more teens who have not taken part of this “second attack” but was of the first one were recently added to the list of arrests.
“If I forgive them, I think they’ll do it again so I don’t really want to,” the victim said.
The Current State of the Juvenile Protection Act in South Korea