A sex offender in his 40s who cut off his location-tracking electronic device (electronic anklet) and fled after being released from prison will serve another prison term.
According to legal sources on the 7th, Presiding Judge Kang Geon-woo of the Cheongju District Court Criminal Division 5 sentenced A, 46, who was indicted and detained on charges of violating the Act on Electronic Monitoring, to one year and eight months in prison.
A is accused of cutting off the electronic anklet attached to the ankle with an industrial grinder and a cutter and fleeing at about 6:40 p.m. on Aug. 22 in an underground area of a commercial building in Seowon District, Cheongju.
After cutting off the electronic anklet, A fled to Busan by public transportation via Jinju and Gimhae. The Ministry of Justice and the probation authorities issued a wanted notice for A immediately after the escape and arrested the person in Busan 17 hours later.
In 2012, A broke into a university dormitory in South Gyeongsang and attempted to rape multiple female students or threatened a convenience store employee with a weapon and raped the worker, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison and a 10-year electronic monitoring order, served the sentence, and after completing the sentence in July last year had been managed as a person under probation supervision.
The court explained the reason for the sentence, saying, "The electronic monitoring order is for preventing recidivism by sex offenders and protecting society, and damaging the device a little over a year after the sentence was completed requires a stern response."