"Parent Who Verbally Abused 21 School Staff 274 Times After Child Was Identified as School Violence Perpetrator Taken Into Custody in Court"

Court Rules: "Infringement on School Staff's Personal Rights Cannot Be Justified"

A parent who, after their elementary school child was identified as a perpetrator of school violence, harbored resentment and habitually used abusive language toward school staff, has been sentenced to prison.

According to Yonhap News on August 20, Kang Changho, the presiding judge for the 1st Criminal Division at Yeongdong Branch of Cheongju District Court, sentenced Mr. A, who had been indicted without detention on charges including insulting school staff and raising his voice (violating the Information and Communications Network Act and child abuse), to one year and four months in prison and a fine of 200,000 won, and ordered his arrest in court.

From September 2023 to March of the previous year, Mr. A was accused of calling and verbally abusing or shouting at 21 school employees, belonging to an elementary school in Okcheon, North Chungcheong, where his child, B, attended, as well as the Okcheon Educational Support Office and the North Chungcheong Provincial Office of Education, a total of 274 times.

It was reported that Mr. A committed these acts in the course of making various malicious complaints, including objecting when B was designated as a perpetrator of school violence and faced an investigation by the School Violence Countermeasure Committee. He also visited the relevant department and caused disturbances, and it is known that some staff members received psychiatric treatment as a result.

Separately, in June 2024, Mr. A was also indicted for allegedly beating B at home with a plastic stick because B got a math problem wrong.

The court stated, "Even if the parent's requests had a legitimate purpose, it cannot justify acts that infringe upon the personal rights of school employees or interfere with school operations itself."

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