Girl's Revenge: The Story of Kim Bok Nam's Murder Case
" Uncle! You are so heavy, what are you doing... um ..."
The man immediately blocked the little girl who was about to call for help with his mouth, and without stopping, he took off his pants first...
21 years later, the little girl stood on the trial bench and said: " What I killed was not a human being, but a beast."
What's even scarier is that this is a true story.
01
It happened in Korea in 1970.
In Namwon, Jeollabuk-do, there is a remote small village.
Jin Funan is an authentic rural girl. Although she is only 9 years old, she started to share the housework early - fetching water from the neighbor's house.
Wells are a luxury in the village. Since she was born, the water in the house has to be fetched from the house of Song Baiquan, a neighbor who has a well.
On this day, as usual, Jin Funan went to the backyard to get a bucket, humming a little song all the way, and happily walked to the door of Song Baiquan's house.
She put the empty bucket aside and knocked politely on the door.
After a while, Song Baiquan, in his thirties, opened the door with a smile.
" Yo , the rich man is here. Come on, come in quickly."
" Hi Uncle, sorry to bother you, I'm here to fetch water."
Jin Funan is kind-hearted and knows how to be grateful. He has always been grateful to this uncle who kindly helped their family. After Song Baiquan opened the door, she walked into the house defenselessly and bouncing as usual.
At that time, Jin Funan didn't know that today would become a nightmare that she could never escape in her life.
After Jin Funan entered the door, Song Baiquan pretended to follow her to the well, and chatted with her while watching her put the bucket.
Song Baiquan was very enthusiastic today. He not only helped the rich man carry water, but also brought her a piece of candy from the house.
At that time, sugar was a rare commodity, and ordinary families could not eat it at all.
Song Baiquan stuffed the candy into her hand: " Eat it, it's not easy for your family, you must be exhausted after asking a little girl to fetch water every day."
Song Baiquan reached out and put the bucket in the rich man's hand on the ground, and wiped the little girl's sweat with the towel around his neck.
" Thank you uncle for giving me sweets~"
The young girl looked innocently at the uncle in front of her, completely unaware of the imminent danger.
Jin Funan felt that the sweet taste in his mouth was the most unforgettable delicacy in his life.
" This uncle is really nice!" This is the most sincere and sincere thought in the little girl's mind.
But what she didn't know was that Song Baiquan in front of her, looking at this cute little girl in front of her, had gradually degenerated into a beast.
Song Baiquan pursed his lips and swallowed, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
" Rich man, you came to help uncle with something in the house, just take a break and go home."
" Well, yes, Uncle."
For the uncle in front of him, Jin Funan had great trust, and followed Song Baiquan into the back room with a little curiosity.
Taking advantage of the little girl's inattention, Song Baiquan locked the door behind him.
The light in the room gradually dimmed.
The moment the rich man turned around, a huge figure came towards him.
Song Baiquan tore off the mask of hypocrisy, revealing his ferocious nature, and directly threw the little girl onto the bed, restraining Jin Funan with one hand, and quickly tore off her coat with the other hand.
The rich man was stunned by this sudden action. She didn't know what happened to this uncle, and she didn't know anything about the cruel things that would happen next.
But at this moment, she instinctively felt a deep sense of fear, which didn't just come from the weight of Song Baiquan on her.
" Uncle! You are so heavy, what are you doing... uh ..."
Song Baiquan immediately blocked the little girl who was about to call for help with his mouth. Without stopping, he first took off his outer pants and then his underwear.
Jin Funan only felt a tearing pain in his lower body...
02
Jin Funan, who was only 9 years old, was pinned down by Song Baiquan and raped.
In such a remote village, the houses are not close to each other, and no one will notice the crying and struggling of the little girl in the house.
The quiet courtyard is in stark contrast to the noisy lodge.
After an unknown amount of time, Song Baiquan finally got up and let go of Jin Funan, and threw the clothes that had been thrown aside to her.
Song Baiquan, who had just finished committing crimes, put on his pants and leaned against the bed to rest calmly like a normal person, turning his face from time to time to look at Jin Funan behind him.
Jin Funan, who was so painful that he couldn't speak, lay motionless on the bed, and after a while he struggled to get up, his whole body twitched and his eyes were glazed over.
There was blood all over the bed, and the rich man with a blank mind was trembling in his clothes, but his lower body was bleeding all the time, and his outer pants were stained red after a while.
She didn't know what happened today. At this moment, she just wanted to go home quickly, because she felt very painful and uncomfortable.
just as she was about to leave, she heard Song Baiquan's vicious threat: " When you get home, don't tell your parents and brother what we did today, or you'll just wait for the whole family to die ! Did you hear that!"
, trembled with fear when Song Baiquan threatened to kill her whole family, and just nodded in response.
She then fled the neighbor's house immediately, dragging the bucket, and limped home.
She didn't even know what happened today, she just felt pain in her lower body and was also very scared. When she thought of Song Baiquan threatening her viciously, she trembled with fear.
Jin Funan walked to the gate of her courtyard in a trance. Along the way, her mind was full of the horror experience at the neighbor's house.
Seeing the warm lights at home, she began to waver for a moment, wanting her parents to comfort her, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't know whether to say them or what to say.
Coincidentally, the father who had been away came back and saw Jin Funan standing at the door in a daze for a long time, and asked:
" Rich man, why don't you come in? Did you go to fetch water just now?"
Just as she was about to speak, Song Baiquan's threatening words flashed in her mind: " If you dare to tell your parents and elder brother what we did today, I will kill your entire family!"
When the words came to her lips, she swallowed them abruptly, faltered a few words in response, and hurried back to her room.
At school, the teacher keenly noticed that Jin Funan walked strangely, but he only regarded her as a fight.
After being cared by the teacher, the rich man said in a panic that he didn't need help.
" It's nothing, Sensei... I... I just fell and hurt a little, it's okay..."
After more than ten days, the wound on her lower body gradually improved. As time went by, she gradually stopped being afraid and having nightmares. She obediently obeyed her parents' orders and went to and from school on time.
The life in the school was very pleasant, and the optimism of the teachers and classmates infected Jin Funan. She gradually forgot about this matter, swept away the haze before, and slowly began to smile at the corners of her mouth.
03
Just when the rich boy was about to forget about it and thought he could grow up happily like other children, the wound was torn open again.
On this day, as before, the unsuspecting parents threw the bucket to the rich man and asked her to fetch water from Song Baiquan's house.
If Song Baiquan 's sexual assault set fire to the rich man's life, then his parents poured oil on the fire.
The moment I saw the bucket, the horrible memories I had finally forgotten came back to my mind again.
This time, the rich man, who has always been eccentric and obedient, was unwilling to fetch water again. She knelt on the ground and begged her parents, but in return she was severely reprimanded by her mother.
Her resistance aroused his father's anger. He thought that his daughter was disobedient and did not abide by the family rules, so he picked up the whip next to her and beat her hard.
However, no matter what his parents say or how he punishes her, the rich man will never fetch water, nor will he tell his parents why.
At that time, South Korea was still in a social environment where men were superior to women. Seeing that the eldest daughter, Jin Funan, was so ignorant, her parents were very disappointed in her.
In their eyes, Jin Funan is an ignorant and rebellious girl. They think that she just lives too well and needs to be honed in life. They have the idea of letting the rich boy leave home early.
After the wound was uncovered, the rich man who suffered both physical and mental torture could no longer live as usual. She no longer made friends with her classmates and liked to be alone. She was haunted by nightmares every night, and her body seemed to be out of order little problem.
She couldn't control her bladder and kept rushing out the door during class, her pants were always wet.
She often wets the bed in the middle of the night and always makes the bedding dirty.
Her academic performance plummeted and she was unable to concentrate in class.
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All of this made her parents even more dissatisfied with her and more eager to push her away.
After graduating from elementary school, his parents decided to send 12-year-old Kim Funam to a wealthy family in Seoul as a maid.
So, the little rich man, carrying a bag of luggage, boarded the green leather car to Seoul .
She didn't blame her parents at all, but felt that this was the most correct decision.
She can finally stay away from all this, no longer need to fetch water, no need to be opened wounds over and over again.
Looking at the constantly receding scenery outside the window, she felt for the first time that life could be so beautiful that even the rice in the air was incredibly sweet.
But fate did not let the poor girl go.
04
After leaving the village that left her with painful memories, the rich man really got better.
In Seoul, no one would inquire about the past, people came from all over the world, and the rich man felt an unprecedented ease.
She can have her own small room, she can also get in touch with TV and all kinds of novelties, and the employer will pay her regularly.
Although not much, she felt satisfied from the bottom of her heart.
" This money can be used to send my younger brother to college." This is the purest vision of this teenage girl.
Seoul's diversity and the atmosphere of a big city completely dispelled the haze in the hearts of rich men.
She found that she could finally calm down. In order to adapt to the life in the big city, she read books whenever she had time to enrich herself, and she gradually no longer hated her hometown, and she became homesick more often.
The life of a maid is very good for a child from a poor village like a rich man.
Every day is just washing the dishes, helping the hostess to cook together, cleaning regularly, and getting paid for washing clothes every week. This kind of work, a rich man can do it for 8 years.
In the past 8 years, she has hardly had any nightmares, and the number of times she recalled that unbearable experience has become less and less.
But forgetting is not the same as forgetting.
With the arrival of puberty, rich men who grow up to be big girls also start chasing romance dramas with girls in Seoul .
The ignorant rich man is very familiar with a certain plot in the play.
Only then did she realize that what she experienced at the age of 9 was exactly the process of love between men and women.
And that's what people in love should do.
The rich man who originally yearned for love because of puberty was struck by lightning.
The sweet feelings in her heart were extinguished by a basin of cold water, and she couldn't control her anger and turned off the TV at once.
The shame of being violated by a stranger and the helplessness after learning the truth swallowed her up. She had no place to talk, and she was no longer interested in love.
The past, which she had long forgotten, gradually came to mind, and she began to be absent-minded, and was scolded several times by her employer.
Fortunately, over the years, the rich man has practiced a set of emotional adjustment methods. She first closed her eyes, took deep breaths to calm down her flustered emotions, and then worked harder on washing and cooking, filling her brain with work.
I have to say, it worked out pretty well for her.
The sense of accomplishment at work made her feel short-lived freedom again.
Finally, when she was 20 years old, the rich man voluntarily resigned from the maid job. She spent 8 years reconciling with herself and wanted to go home to see her parents.
Before leaving, her employer took a photo for her. In the photo, the rich man was smiling brightly under the setting sun.
The 20 -year-old rich man returned to his hometown, which is beautiful and has the atmosphere of a big city.
Living in a rich family for a long time makes her gestures elegant and calm.
The parents are very pleased that their daughter is so beautiful, but they have a headache that she is not married. In that conservative feudal era, it was a disgraceful thing for a woman to be single at the age of 20.
The rich man who didn't have any expectation for love, smiled and obeyed his parents' arrangement of a blind date, and picked a man she didn't hate to get married.
Life after marriage is plain and happy.
The rich man devotes himself to taking care of the family, and is proficient in washing and cooking. She is shy, easy to talk to both internally and externally, and never loses her temper.
She finally had someone to rely on and started a new life full of happiness and longing.
If nothing else happened, she might be able to grow old with this man, and then completely forget about that tragic childhood experience.
05
However, the change came unexpectedly.
On the night of the wedding, as usual, it was supposed to be the consummation of the house, but the rich man seemed to have a physical barrier. Whenever he was approached by his husband, he felt extremely uncomfortable all over his body.
Her body was involuntarily resisting sexual contact. Within a month of marriage, she never had intercourse with her husband, and she repeatedly used various excuses to prevaricate.
The husband who was rejected again and again couldn't take it anymore and got angry at her.
The rich man, who was well aware of his husband's grievances, bit his lip and looked deeply at the man in front of him.
She wants to gamble.
" Tell the secrets that have been hidden in my heart for so many years to this man who wants to join hands for the rest of my life, and maybe I can be relieved." She comforted herself.
Therefore, the rich man summoned up all his courage and told his husband in detail about his tragic childhood experience.
The moment she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a big stone in her heart fall to the ground.
The air is silent.
The husband didn't move.
While the rich man was anxiously waiting for a response, the husband suddenly pushed her away impatiently.
" It's been more than 10 years, why do you still care about it?"
The husband thought that the rich man was making a fuss out of a molehill, just making excuses for not being willing to fulfill his marital obligations. The more he thought about it, the more angry the husband called his father-in-law and told her the secret that the rich man had kept for more than 10 years.
" Your daughter was sexually assaulted when she was a child . She has never been able to get out of the haze. We have never had intercourse. If this continues, it will be difficult to maintain the marriage."
The first time they heard that their daughter was sexually assaulted, Jin Funan's parents hung up the phone silently.
They are more worried about their daughter being abandoned by their husbands than their daughter's pain.
So the old couple discussed it and made an extremely vicious and incomprehensible decision.
06
After learning that their daughter was sexually assaulted when she was young, and the sequelae affected their married life, the parents found an excuse to call their daughter back home.
Facing the pressing questions from his parents, the rich man had a complicated expression on his face. She still remembered Song Baiquan's threats.
Her parents looked at her seriously, which made her ashamed to speak, and a huge sense of shame and humiliation spread in her heart. Her parents' criticism made her feel like she was in an ice cave.
Seeing that they couldn't convince the rich man, her parents made a very crazy decision: they sent her to a mental hospital in a nearby city.
During the days in the mental hospital, the rich man felt that the way to adjust his mentality in the past had failed, and she seemed to be split into two people.
One desperately comforts himself and is full of hope for life.
A living in a nightmare, reminding himself of the past all the time.
She couldn't figure it out, she had tried her best to adapt to the life of a normal person, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get rid of the influence?
The doctor has received many patients like the rich man, and the conclusion of the diagnosis is that the rich man suffers from schizophrenia and needs counseling and treatment.
Fortunately, the treatment process went very smoothly. The doctor enlightened the rich man bit by bit and never blamed her, which made the rich man feel a hard-won understanding.
She is slowly getting better.
07
Two months later, the rich man was discharged from the hospital.
Rekindling her enthusiasm for life, she began to reflect on her behavior and vowed to live a good life.
With all kinds of expectations for life, she became a housewife like the good wife and mother she used to be, and once again integrated into married life.
Everything seemed to be over, she mustered up her courage again, and followed her husband into the bedroom...
But things backfired, and she still couldn't have sex with her husband smoothly. In the end, the two signed a divorce agreement, ending their marriage of only a few months.
The neighbors around laughed at her and pitied her.
But the rich man never thinks that way.
She thought that she was just not ready, her ex-husband didn't really love her, and this time she wanted to control her own destiny.
So she started to go on blind dates crazily, and took the initiative to get to know each other. Finally, a few months later, she met the person she liked, who had a perfect personality and both of them called each other very much.
" This time, I will definitely get my life back on track."
With hope and confidence, the rich man started his second marriage.
Sure enough, this marriage was much smoother than the last one. The second husband and her personality complemented each other, and the two lived happily.
08
Having learned the lessons from the previous marriage, the rich man began to figure out how to overcome his fear of intercourse.
She asked married women how to do it, bought sexy lingerie, put on bright lipstick, and cheered herself up in the mirror.
The next second, her husband came and called her to sleep.
When pushed onto the bed, the rich man's body trembled uncontrollably.
She was sweating coldly, her brain desperately telling herself to relax.
When her husband was about to take off her underwear, the rich man who had endured to the limit finally broke down and cried, kicking her husband off the bed...
. Whenever her husband approached, she couldn't help but think of Song Baiquan's violation.
Now she can't accept any contact with the opposite sex at all.
After all, the two were attracted to each other at first. Although the husband didn't say anything, he gave him the greatest understanding.
However, after being interrupted again and again, the second husband still couldn't control it and had a quarrel with her.
Jin Funan finally realized that the sexual assault when she was a child will become a shadow of her life, and it will follow her everywhere, and she will never get rid of it .
She will never have a normal life without addressing the source of the nightmare she experienced at the age of 9.
She told her current husband about the experience again, but this time the husband did not ridicule her, but told her to use the law to solve it.
Jin Funan, who only had a primary school diploma, was enlightened, and she realized that the law was her lifeline.
So she ran all over the local library, studying law books day and night, which contained relevant regulations on Song Baiquan's sexual assault .
She is full of hope.
In order to learn the process of litigation, she tried to go to the court to audit, and soon the rich man took a large notebook.
It contains all the methods she used to punish Song Baiquan.
Next, wait for the day of the prosecution.
09
Looking at Jin Funan, who is as hardworking as chicken blood, the husband hesitated to speak many times.
Finally, when the rich man stayed up until the wee hours of the morning and his body was about to fail, he took away her notebook.
The husband said to her, don't forget, it's been more than 10 years, and you can't sue him legally.
"The period for public prosecution has passed, and nothing can be done."
This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, shattering Jin Funan's fantasy. She didn't believe that the law would not help her.
The unwilling rich man ran to the police station to report the crime, but got the same answer:
" There is only a 6 - month prosecution period for sexual assault crimes, after which there is no way to file a case."
The rich man who has worked hard countless times, covered his face and cried and fell at the feet of the police. She regretted that she knew it too late, but she was too young at the time.
The last ray of hope was also dashed.
A rich man with a dead heart, wiped away his tears, she hated him so much.
He hated that Song Baiquan, who was inferior to a beast, raped her, hated himself for not being able to get out of the haze no matter how hard he tried, hated that the laws of this country could not protect her.
The rich man wiped away his tears, quickly packed his luggage when he got home, and bought a ticket to go home.
The law could not give her justice, and she decided to come back by herself.
10
Escape is no longer the answer, she has to face her fears.
So, after many years, she once again came to the place she had never dared to set foot in again - the neighbor Song Baiquan's house.
Song Baiquan refused to open the door for her, so she vented her emotions through the door. Seeing that the other party was still afraid to show up, the rich man kicked open the door and rushed into the room.
Song Baiquan, already 55 years old, suffered from a stroke. He was paralyzed on the bed looking at the angry rich man, but he couldn't move when he wanted to .
Looking at the man in front of him who couldn't take care of himself and ruined her life, the rich man laughed out loud, but these were far from enough to make up for the pain she had endured over the years.
She wants a reasonable explanation, she wants Song Baiquan to admit his crimes in public, and she wants sincere repentance and apology.
After venting her anger, she went home and waited for Song Baiquan's response.
However, after Jin Funan went back, he found that his brother had received 400,000 won from Song Baekwon's trustee, but Song Baekwon didn't bring a message, let alone admit or repent.
The elder brother took the money and persuaded her to accept it as soon as she was good.
Mom said she was hypocritical.
Dad said she was a disgrace to the family.
Everyone thought that it would be fine if the past was over, even if she was sexually assaulted, she would still be alive. The naive rich man once comforted himself like this.
But after all, it was a bubble.
All of this is in the heart of the rich man.
The whole world thought she was calculating, and the last hope in her heart was shattered.
" Since the country and the law are not good enough, then I will do it myself."
She has a whole new plan.
11
She decided to kill the beast that had tortured her for 21 years and ruined her life.
Now that she has a goal, her mind is clearer than ever. From now on, she will plan a safe, feasible, one-off plan.
To kill Song Baiquan with his own hands, all factors that would interfere must be considered.
The first is the tool. It must be fast, but it must not let the other party die.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the small shops on the street began to prepare for the evening. The rich man greeted his neighbors and walked towards the vegetable market with an empty vegetable basket.
She was in a good mood and bought the dishes that she was usually reluctant to eat, and even asked for a small piece of meat for the first time.
When paying, she took out a rusty kitchen knife from the basket, added some money and exchanged it for a new one.
The best way to make Song Baiquan feel the pain she has endured every minute and every second over the years is Ling Chi.
There was a fruit stand on the edge of the vegetable market, and she was thinking about loopholes in the plan while picking fruits.
The kitchen knife is easy to use, but if you don't control it, the knife will kill you.
So she made up her mind and exchanged the change she found for a sharp fruit dagger.
These things are too eye-catching to carry on a daily basis, and they are easy to be suspicious, so she found an old handbag, cut it with scissors and sewed it into the shape of a scabbard and hid it around her waist.
As long as she wears a baggy coat for her thin body, she will not attract attention from others.
After everything is ready, what is needed next is the physical strength necessary to kill a grown man.
Song Baiquan has been doing farm work all year round. Even though the lower half of his body cannot move freely due to a stroke, his arm strength is still amazing, which is beyond the control of a thin woman like her.
Under the great willpower to avenge herself with her own hands, she practiced the quick knife-drawing action in front of the mirror in the toilet every day without any change.
Draw the knife, swing the knife, and stab in front of him.
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Over and over again, with clean movements and firm eyes.
The rich man who has practiced for more than two months can even skillfully perform movements with his eyes closed.
In more than 30 years of life, the rich man felt the joy of being in charge of his own life for the first time, and she couldn't help crying.
But in the next second, she wiped away her tears again, and strengthened her belief that she could kill the enemy with her own hands.
12
It was cold on January 30, 1991.
The streets of South Korea piled up with calf-high snow, and the north wind blew into his face from the window, but the rich man didn't care at all.
Her blood is boiling, and today will be the day when she will realize her wish and get rid of the nightmare completely.
After sunset, she checked the scabbard on her belt by herself, put on a thick coat, hummed a cheerful tune, stepped on the snow and came to Song Baiquan's house and knocked on the door.
Just like the little girl who was carrying a bucket and knew nothing about danger 21 years ago, the difference is that she is no longer the lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
The gate of Song Baiquan's house was locked, and the yard was deserted.
The rich man waited for a while, guessing that Song Baiquan must have turned into a turtle again and cursed in the room, but she was in a very good mood and was not in a hurry.
Resisting her excitement, she shouted in the tone of a daily treat:
" Song Baiquan, I have something to tell you, please come to my mother's house."
Hearing Song Baiquan yelling, he couldn't bear it any longer. He yelled at the rich man across the yard, calling her a crazy woman, a whore, and still haunting her.
Song Baiquan shouted hoarsely:
" Didn't I give your family 400,000 won, what do you want to do with your whore?"
The word "prostitute" left the rich man stunned. She was swallowed by anger, and there was only one thought in her mind, that Song Baiquan deserved what he deserved!
Since you won't open the door, I'll come by myself.
Since the law cannot punish you, then I will do it myself.
Since the whole world is on your side, then I will do it myself.
The rich man kicked open the locked door, rushed to the back room where Song Baiquan was lying, and skillfully drew out the kitchen knife from his waist.
No matter how Song Baiquan begged for mercy, it could not shake her determination at all .
It was this man in front of her who made her life look like neither human nor ghost, and ruined everything about her.
She wants to cut off her nightmare and seek justice for herself...
13
Years of anger and pain overwhelmed his rationality, the rich man swung a kitchen knife at Song Baiquan's lower body without even thinking about it, and cut off the part where he raped her back then.
Song Baiquan's painful screams were heard in her ears, and her lower body fell to the ground in front of her eyes. The bright red blood under Song Baiquan reminded her of the blood shed when she was raped when she was 9 years old.
Grievance, pain, struggle, all emotions came to her heart, she couldn't stop, and Song Baiquan had to pay back all the pain these years.
One knife after another, one after another, they slashed at Song Baiquan who was below him.
Dominated by survival instinct, Song Baiquan took advantage of his physical strength to hold the kitchen knife in the rich man's hand, and at the same time cursed the rich man with " bitch" and " whore".
The sound of " whore" made the rich man go crazy. She waved the kitchen knife and threw it into the yard. With a posture that she had practiced countless times, she pulled out the fruit knife neatly with her backhand and stabbed it into Song Baiquan's body.
One knife, two knife, three knife...
Soon, Song Baiquan 's howling in pain attracted the neighbors next door.
Several strong men hugged the rich man together, took the opportunity to snatch the knife in her hand, and the rich man suddenly regained a trace of reason without the knife.
Song Baiquan had already fainted due to the excessive pain, and his heartbeat gradually disappeared.
She just killed this beast with her own hands, which gave her a lifetime of nightmares.
There was only silence in the hut, the neighbors were frightened and stupid, but the rich man who was mad just now became quiet instead.
She couldn't tell how she felt.
It is cool, it is empty, and it is also confused.
In the end, it all turned into a gratified smile on the corner of her mouth, and she would no longer be dominated by the nightmares of the past.
The police rushed to the scene soon after receiving the report. The rich man obediently put on handcuffs and got into the police car, with a bright smile that could not be concealed all the way.
The evidence of the murder was conclusive, and the rich man was arrested according to law.
On August 26, 1991, this day was the day when the Jin Funan murder case opened.
In the courtroom, the rich man looked at the judge calmly and said firmly:
" What I killed was not a human being, but a beast."
The first-instance judge took into account that Jin Funan was a victim of sexual assault, and at the same time had long-term mental disorders due to the sequelae of sexual assault, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia in a mental hospital. He was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for the crime of homicide. 3 years of probation, 1 year of compulsory nursing care.
The judge's judgment is very rare in Korean history.
In South Korea at that time, the minimum sentence for homicide was usually 5 years.
In court, Jin Funan accepted the trial without any complaints.
of the nursing home in Gongju , Chungcheongnam-do, accompanied by his family .
Only then did this absurd sexual assault case come to an end.
15
The sexual assault case of Jin Funan came to an end, but in 1991 when Jin Funan was sentenced, as the case came into public view, countless " golden rich men" in South Korea were awakened and stood up bravely.
Once the case was reported, it instantly ignited public opinion in South Korea. For a while, people all over South Korea were discussing what happened to her.
The verdict even aroused the dissatisfaction of Korean women. Many women who suffered from sexual assault like Jin Funan but did not have the courage to resist stood up.
Shortly after the Jin Funan case, two more anti-homicide cases related to sexual assault occurred in South Korea.
In the case of Kim Bo-eun and Kim Jin-gwan who harmed the rapist in order to avoid sexual assault, the legal judgment still favors the rapist.
Korean women were therefore united, and on April 10 of the same year, the Jeonju Women's Group established the " Jin Funan Incident Response Committee."
They use the power of the people, hoping that the law will acquit the Jinfumen.
They interviewed Jin Funan's family members, formed a joint lawyer, attended the trial, interviewed the judge, and held a press conference to publicize the case to various media companies and expand the influence of the case.
In 1992, another " Kim Bo Eun's anti-killing stepfather incident" occurred in South Korea, which completely ignited the anti-sexual violence activities of Korean women.
Female college student Kim Bo - eun has been sexually abused by her stepfather for a long time, so she couldn't bear it and killed her stepfather herself.
The two cases are highly similar, and without exception, there is no law to protect victims of sexual assault.
Therefore, Korean women held high the banner of anti-sexual violence, and promoted social changes in all aspects.
The original " Golden Rich Men Support Group" became the alma mater of the " Sexual Violence Prevention Center" ( opened in 1994), and launched a series of procedures such as a Korean women's hotline to help women who have been sexually assaulted to report.
At the same time, members of the Women's Federation also raised funds to launch a science popularization campaign to the public in the form of donating socks, urging the society to change the perception of victims of sexual violence. Stereotype.
And publicize to the whole society that sexual violence is not only a personal problem, but also a problem for everyone.
In terms of education, women's groups have cooperated with academic circles, translated foreign works on sexual violence, and published many books on child sexual assault, date rape, sexual harassment and other related topics.
Most importantly, a women's group conducted a sex education program for the first time in Korea, providing essential sexual knowledge to people of all ages.
This also forced Korean society to correct loopholes in the law.
In 1994, South Korea formally enacted the " Sexual Violence Crime Punishment and Victim Protection Act", which revised the previous definition of sexual crimes as crimes against chastity, and emphasized the protection of victims, as well as improving the quality of testimonies of victims in court trials. details of trust.
These alone are not enough.
Since 1994, the Sexual Violence Relief Center has organized interviews on sexual violence, allowing victims to speak out about their experiences.
In 2003 , the Rescue Center held a survivor sharing meeting ( speak out), allowing survivors to communicate with each other and help each other.
Such a form is extremely rare in the Korean women's movement. They used their own efforts to put sexual violence on the table and become a public issue.
In 2004, the Korean Women's Federation presented awards to 24 survivors of sexual violence, making this sharing an important cornerstone in South Korea's history towards gender equality.
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After the case became a milestone in social development, Kim Fu Nam's story was remake into MBC's real story theater " Crime and Punishment".
Jin Funan's case is no longer a simple criminal case.
It's more like some kind of warning, warning us not to let our guard down.
Those sexual predators who are eyeing and malicious, they are hiding beside us.
They may be relatives, teachers, neighbors, or unsuspecting characters.
What we can do is to better protect the women around us with the wake-up call of our predecessors.
May we all stand up for the sovereignty of our bodies and say no to all sexual violence.