With a series of crimes such as attempted kidnappings targeting children recently, child rapist Cho Doo-soon was found to have gone out without permission in violation of an order restricting outings during after-school hours.
The Criminal Division 2 of the Ansan Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office (headed by Chief Prosecutor Jang Uk-hwan) said on the 11th that it indicted Cho Doo-soon without detention on charges of violating the Act on the Attachment of Electronic Devices and filed for treatment and custody.
From late March to early June this year, Cho Doo-soon is accused of leaving his residence in a multi-family house in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, a total of four times without permission in violation of an "order restricting outings during after-school hours." He is also suspected of damaging his location-tracking electronic device inside the house.
Cho Doo-soon's restricted outing hours are 7–9 a.m. and 3–6 p.m., which are school commuting hours, and from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day, which are nighttime hours.
Earlier, the Ansan Probation Office applied to the court in June this year for confinement for psychiatric evaluation in light of Cho Doo-soon's symptoms of mental abnormality, and the National Forensic Psychiatric Hospital replied in late July that treatment and custody were necessary based on its psychiatric evaluation of Cho Doo-soon.
In 2008, Cho Doo-soon was sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping and raping an elementary school student in Ansan and causing serious injuries, and he was released in 2020 after serving his full term. In Dec. 2023, he violated a nighttime outing ban order, was sentenced to three months in prison, and served the sentence.
The court plans to decide on treatment and custody at the time of sentencing.