May 18th, 2013 at 4:33 am » Comments (6)

Via the Joong Ang Ilbo: The nation’s highest court yesterday found a 46-year-old man guilty in the country’s first marital rape conviction. In the landmark ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the high court conviction against the man for three counts of spousal rape. The husband was convicted of threatening his wife with a knife then raping her. The Supreme Court also upheld the lower court’s decision to jail him for three years and six months for the crime. His personal information will also be made available to the public for
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May 15th, 2013 at 10:12 pm » Comments (2)

This is good to see because the sentences for drug smuggling into Korea need to be long to discourage other idiots from doing the same thing: SEOUL — A South Korean court upheld the sentences this week of two men convicted in what officials have called the largest-ever drug-smuggling ring involving the U.S. military here. Pvt. Michael Lehmkuhl of the 2nd Infantry Division was sentenced in December to five years in prison for importing and selling synthetic marijuana. Former U.S. Forces Korea soldier Arin Bergquist got four years for selling
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May 15th, 2013 at 8:48 am » Comments (16)

The media is pretty much jumping on every military sexual assault case the can find now. This reminds me a lot of the media in Korea and Japan when they go through their cycles of highlighting every GI crime case no matter how minor: (CNN) – The Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant first class assigned to an assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault. The soldier, who was not named in an Army statement, has been suspended from all duties. Specifically, the soldier
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May 13th, 2013 at 9:05 pm » Comments (7)

Here is an interesting statistic which I have not heard anyone else in the media other than the Washington Times discuss or any politician that the US military has a problem with false sexual assault accusations: False complaints of sexual abuse in the military are rising at a faster rate than overall reports of sexual assault, a trend that could harm combat readiness, analysts say. Virtually all media attention on a Pentagon report last week focused on an increase in service members’ claims of sexual abuse in an anonymous survey,
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May 13th, 2013 at 4:11 pm » Comments (2)

SKorea sexual assault fiasco: Attacks on the victim and an #SNL parody asiancorrespondent.com/107555/south-k…@yoonlee27 — Asian Correspondent (@AsCorrespondent) May 13, 2013

May 13th, 2013 at 8:30 am » Comments (21)

Here is the latest on the sexual assualt accusation by a Korean-American intern against President Park Guen-hye’s spokesman during her recent trip to the US. You all are going to love this guy’s excuse for the sexual assault: On whether he sexually harassed an intern in Washington, former presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung said at a press conference on Saturday, “I only tapped the woman’s waist.” But he reportedly confessed to touching the woman’s buttocks at a probe conducted by the presidential secretariat of civil affairs upon returning to Korea on
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May 10th, 2013 at 5:44 am » Comments (27)

Via various reader tips comes news that the President Park’s spokesman has been accused of committing a sexual assault during their trip to the US: President Park Geun-hye’s first official visit to the United States ended in one of the worst ways possible Friday with her spokesman being fired amid allegations that he had sexually assaulted a woman during the trip. The allegations sparked public outrage in South Korea and dealt a serious blow to Park just as she was beginning to regain public confidence through her handling of tensions
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May 7th, 2013 at 5:16 am » Comments (3)

The article only makes mention of breast implants not whether he had complete surgery. Police in the north of Colombia on Monday arrested an escaped prisoner who apparently tried to avoid capture by dressing as a woman and even getting breast implants. After escaping from prison where he had been sentenced to serve 60 years, Giovanni Rebolledo reportedly decided to get breast implants to help him avoid capture. Despite his rather impressive new rack, Police were able to identify and capture Rebolledo during a routine stop and search in the
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May 6th, 2013 at 8:49 pm » Comments (34)

The Air Force just keeps shooting themselves in the foot with these high profile sexual assault incidents: ARLINGTON, Va. — The chief of the Air Force’s sexual assault prevention and response branch was arrested this weekend and charged with sexual battery. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, Va., was arrested Sunday morning, according to the Arlington police. He’s accused of approaching a woman in a parking lot and grabbing her breasts and buttocks, according to the crime report. He has been removed from his position, an Air Force spokeswoman
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May 4th, 2013 at 8:30 am » Comments (37)

Via the Marmot’s Hole comes news that an American English teacher working in South Korea is being accused of a molestation crime back in the US: An American man suspected of sexually abusing minors in the United States has been arrested in South Korea after an eight-year-long international manhunt, police here said Friday. The 44-year-old suspect, whose identity has been withheld, is suspected of raping minors in the U.S. state of Kentucky four times between August and October 2003, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA). [Marmot's Hole] You
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