YouTuber Kwak Hyeol-soo expresses "victory for the victim" upon the prosecutor's request for a seven-year prison sentence for the taxi driver accused of sexual assault

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YouTuber Kwak Hyeol-soo (real name Jung Hyun-soo) revealed his feelings as the taxi driver charged with sexually assaulting him was sentenced to seven years in prison.

On the 12th, Kwak Hyeol-soo stated, "Seven years in prison, mandatory disclosure of personal information, a 10-year employment ban, 10 years of electronic monitoring, and probation. Isn't this a happy day? I sincerely thank those who believed in me. I am glad I could give you something refreshing. Isn't this justice and life?"

He continued, "According to acquaintances and lawyers who attended the trial, there is no ground for reducing the seven-year sentence. The perpetrator has a serious criminal record. He also refused to admit his guilt during this trial. He lied repeatedly in court and blamed me. Everyone in the courtroom was extremely angry at the perpetrator's attitude. It seems he has not yet come to his senses."

He also spoke out against the secondary victimization that followed his confession of sexual assault. Kwak Hyeol-soo said, "Why did people doubt and criticize a 24-year-old girl's words? I thought I had become a criminal instead of a victim in this country. Why did I have to be criticized more than the perpetrator? The wounds from not only sexual assault but also hundreds of thousands of secondary victimization comments were deep. Why do people insist on how a victim should behave?"

He emphasized, "I plan to file lawsuits against both the secondary victimizers and the trolls. Not for my sake, but for the children and victims who will live their lives in the future. This is justice and the victory of the victim."

Previously, Kwak Hyeol-soo caused a stir in November last year when he confessed, "I was sexually assaulted in a taxi about a year and a half ago."

On the 12th, the Prosecution Service requested a seven-year prison sentence for the taxi driver, Mr. A, during the sentencing hearing for the charge of attempted rape and injury held at Seoul Western District Court Criminal Division 11 (Presiding Judge Yoon Woong-gi). The prosecution also requested a 10-year order for the perpetrator to complete a sexual violence treatment program, a 10-year order for the disclosure and notification of personal information, and a 10-year order for the attachment of a location-tracking electronic device.

Mr. A was brought to trial on charges of sexually assaulting and molesting Kwak Hyeol-soo, who was in a state of inability to resist due to alcohol intoxication, after picking him up in a taxi near Hongdae Station in Mapo-gu, Seoul, in May 2024.

In his final argument, Mr. A claimed, "Kwak Hyeol-soo did not leave the taxi while heavily intoxicated, and when he said he needed to urinate, I tried to dissuade him and helped him tidy his clothes," but the Prosecution Service requested a seven-year prison sentence.

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