Police have referred a court employee to prosecutors without detention for privately looking up the personal details of about 10 perpetrators in the Miryang gang rape case.
According to the Mapo Police Station in Seoul on the 16th, a court clerk, A, affiliated with the Seoul Western District Court, was sent without detention to the Seoul Western District Prosecutors Office on the 12th on suspicion of privately querying the resident registration information of about 10 suspects in the Miryang gang rape case through the court intranet (violation of the Personal Information Protection Act).
The Miryang gang rape case was an incident in which 44 high school students in the Miryang area lured a Ulsan middle school girl to Miryang in Dec. 2004 and repeatedly raped her for a year. At the time, 10 perpetrators were indicted and 20 were sent to juvenile detention, but prosecutors decided not to indict the remaining perpetrators.
In 2024, 20 years after the incident occurred, the personal details of the perpetrators were disclosed online, including on YouTube channels, sparking controversy over secondary victimization and private sanctions.