By I wonder if this is something we will ever see in the US, sending kids to jail for bullying?:
Two South Korean middle school students received rare prison sentences on Monday for brutally and regularly bullying a classmate who later killed himself.
The court in the southeastern city of Daegu sentenced the two, both 15-years-old, to imprisonment for three and a half years and three years.
They were found guilty of beating and insulting their classmate for several months. The victim jumped from a building to his death last December, sparking alarm over school bullying.
“Prison sentences are inevitable for the defendants as the court cannot deal loosely with them given the dire reality of rampant school violence,” judge Yang Ji-Jeong said in a statement quoted by Yonhap News Agency.
They took turns beating the victim, interrupting his study and forcing him to immerse his face in a sink of water or to eat biscuits from the ground, he said.
Such insults and harassment destroyed the victim’s everyday life and devastated his spirit, Yang added. [China Post]
5:09 pm on February 28th, 2012 1
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7700168
Answer is yes.
5:10 pm on February 28th, 2012 2
I saw a brief headline from the US – something like a 10-year-old girl getting arrested for a fight with another girl that left her dead!
5:25 pm on February 28th, 2012 3
So the bullies are now getting bullied by the government. That’ll teach them for sure.
7:13 pm on February 28th, 2012 4
where were the teachers? Students are citizens and being in school doesn’t exempt anyone from the law. We have to stop thinking students have no rights or that teachers have God given authority to do as they please.
8:00 pm on February 28th, 2012 5
“I wonder if this is something we will ever see in the US, sending kids to jail for bullying?”
Bullies just get Columbined in the US.
Actually, sending bullies to jail is not a triumph of the System…
…it is the final failure in a long chain of failed steps from poor parents to uncaring teachers to oblivious administrators.
Sadly, it is likely these little shytbags aren’t going to get out of jail as model citizens after “learning their lesson”.
I might add that, as I understand it, American schools have the habit of overlooking the chronic hassling the jocks dish out to the geeks… but are quick to be on the phone to the police if someone dares to DRAW a gun.
At least that insanity hasn’t reached Korea yet.
9:19 pm on February 28th, 2012 6
LOL. GI Korea needs to get out more and start reading more Korean news. This was in the news like about a month ago. And no USInKorea, this is the different case from that girl’s case. I’m surprised you guys don’t even know about this news, when it’s been this has been a HUGE news item. It just goes to show you, expats aren’t interested at all in Korea, unless it involves any kind of perceived negative stories about white foreigners. You also missed the important fact that bullying charges now go on school records, which will effect admissions to universities. I think this is a pretty good deterrent and a better deterrent than prison sentences.
9:37 pm on February 28th, 2012 7
6. So, a mark on your permanent record, eh? You know who else maintained permanent records on the population?
Hi Tom, long time, no troll!
12:01 am on February 29th, 2012 8
Tom glad to see your back. Are you still sucking money out of your parents and donating it to some third rate school in California?
I understand your concern, but don’t see a need for expedited reporting in this case. As you’ve undoubtedly recently seen the school shooting in the US, so have your countrymen. For some reason US news seems to make it to the shores of Korea quicker than vice versa. Please explain this phenoma.
12:02 am on February 29th, 2012 9
I know you’re