“I can only think of Jungin all day today

“I can only think of Jungin all day today.”

There is a growing public consensus on the case of the child adopted for 16 months. That’s when the Korea Child Abuse Prevention Association and SBS’s “I Want to Know” production team started the “I’m sorry Jung In-ah” challenge.

In particular, on day 2, when SBS broadcast the specific situation until 16-month-old Jung In-yang died after being abused for a long period of time on day 2, anger is growing over the issue of responsibility. of not preventing the abuse along with demanding severe punishment for the abuser.

SBS “I want to know” tracked down the abuse situation. Hearing the opinions of the experts, Jung In-yang added strength to knowing that he was abused for a long time. The teacher and the nursery doctor denounced the police on three occasions, but pointed out the situation in which they were not charged.

Public opinion appears to have exploded as SBS broadcasts take up the case, but public opinion is already infested online.

The case of the 16-month-old adopted child was a case in which several situations overlapped that could prevent child abuse, but anger against a social system that was useless.

After Jung In-yang died in October last year, and the incident became known, centered on the childcare internet cafes, it raised issues about the cruelty of the abuse and the handling of the case. They looked at the case seriously as if Korean society was on the test bed to deal with child abuse issues.

From the content, I was able to fully recognize the child abuse situation by looking at the traces of the posts from the cafes where the perpetrator, Yang Mo, was active, from the video that he appeared as an adoptive family on EBS ” Special Family ‘last August , traces of In-yang Jung’s abuse were found. There are many contents of regret and anger. The EBS side closed the video after the incident, saying: “The production team only saw the victim for the first time in a meeting where they visited while covering the family of the main artists in a related special documentary, and they have never referred or interviewed the family separately. ” By revealing it, he showed affirmation that public opinion of guilt was unleashed.

Regret and resentment for failing to protect Jung In-yang exploded in early December when the prosecution charged the perpetrator with abuse and death by applying a murder charge and applying the charges of neglect and abuse of a child against the husband and the wife without detention.

He urged that the crime of murder be enforced by asking, “Should the death of a child who cannot speak be proven?” And citizens protested in front of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office. There is also a movement to write a petition to the court with content asking for severe punishment for the perpetrator.

In the eyes of public opinion, the power of public authorities, which cannot severely punish the problem of child abuse, was also the subject of anger. The media cannot keep up with the exploding public opinion, but it is a strong side that the public is angry with the prosecution’s application of the abuse and death charges.

The content that is published most often in childcare cafes is that even though they reported to the police station, they could not understand the situation in which they were not charged.

In the first nursery, Jung In-yang found a bruise on her body and reported it. There was a report that Yang Mo, the second perpetrator, left Jung In-yang alone in the car. And the pediatrician who treated In-yang Jung also reported that the abuse was suspected. There were three reports in total, but police only heard one-sided testimony that “there was no abuse” from the perpetrator’s parents each time and handled the charges without charge. It was a series of things that were difficult to explain with the inability of the public power alone, but the explanation of how this was possible was extremely insufficient.

In early December, the Seoul Police Agency referred five people, including the person in charge of handling the case, to the disciplinary committee and issued warnings and warnings, but public opinion has not hesitated to accuse him of being an ‘accomplice’ in Jung In-yang’s abuse case.

Lately, the police and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare announced a plan to separate and protect the victim from the abuser if the police report child abuse more than once, but mistrust in public authority could not be extinguished.

In response, former legislator Yoo Seung-min said, “There were many Jung-in in front of him. He said he would avoid repeating child abuse each time, but it is shameful and sinful that his young life is exposed as helpless to the violence of his parents. “I reported it three times, but why couldn’t the police stop Jung In’s death? Did? “What kinds of problems were there in the law, the system, the surveillance and response system, so that child abuse and tragedy could not be prevented? This time, we must dig deeper and correct any wrong laws, systems and practices.

“I have been tortured beyond constant abuse in the brightest period of my life when a baby takes steps, talks and learns the fun of eating, and I feel great sadness and anger that I couldn’t stop our society.” .

Mr. A (39) said that he was still paying attention to the incident and said that Jung-in was confused several times a day. Mr. A said: “I am concerned about the unfavorable opinion of the adoption in this case. However, I believe that a thorough verification is necessary in the adoption process, and a legal system must be put in place to monitor whether children live well in the home after adoption. ”

Even now, the media should get the point of angry public opinion. In the process of getting rid of police innocence, it is necessary to approach the issue more carefully and pay attention to the problems in the process of legal punishment of the perpetrator’s parents. Furthermore, Korean society must propose a solution to the problem of child abuse and the media must verify it. This is so that the words of a netizen who says “I can only think about ○○ all day” are not repeated.

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