Man Gets 1 More Year in Prison for False Sex-Crime Accusation in Retaliation for Evidence Against Him

A man in his 20s serving time for a sex offense was given an additional prison sentence after falsely accusing someone who had submitted evidence against him and threatening a fellow inmate with a weapon.

On Nov. 1, Park Donguk, a judge presiding alone in the Chuncheon District Court's Criminal Division 3, said he had sentenced A, 25, to one year in prison on charges of making a false accusation and special intimidation.

A was indicted on charges of conspiring with B, 25, who was serving time with him at Chuncheon Prison, to submit a false petition to the Hongcheon Police Station in May 2023. The petition alleged that an acquaintance, C, had produced and shown sexual exploitation material involving minors.

According to the indictment, C submitted evidence to investigators in a case in which A was accused of having sexual intercourse with a minor by deceptive means, among other charges, under the Act on the Protection of Children and Juveniles against Sexual Abuse. Upset by C's actions, A suggested to B, who knew people close to C, that they "get C mixed up in a case."

A got the names of female acquaintances from B and wrote a false account alleging that C had shown videos he had filmed after having sex with acquaintances who were minors. B copied the account by hand and mailed it to the police, and also made false statements to officers who came to the prison to investigate.

A was also charged with threatening D, an inmate in his 40s, with a weapon on Sept. 4, 2025, while they were assembling shopping bags in a prison workshop. A, who was the group leader, had complained that his group had been assigned too much work. When D, who belonged to another group, said, "There's usually a difference of about 20 to 30," A swore at him and threatened him.

In court, A denied the false-accusation charge, saying, "I only organized what B told me at his request; I didn't conspire with him to commit the crime." He added, "B and C are the ones making false accusations against me."

The court, however, found that A had a motive to make a false accusation, citing his complaints to C during a prison visit that the evidence C submitted had put him at a disadvantage in the trial. It also found B's testimony credible: B said he had taken part because he feared A's threat to "frame him as a sex offender and have him punished if he didn't help with the false accusation."

The court also found it difficult to believe A's explanation that he had merely organized the contents of the petition, noting that A appeared to have paid the postage for mailing it.

Judge Park said, "The defendant's motive for falsely accusing C, the circumstances in which he involved B in the crime, and the seriously harmful nature of the false accusations are all concerning. His conduct was also reprehensible because he shifted the blame to his accomplice, B." He added, "He committed these offenses while in prison, and the special-intimidation offense was committed while he was within the repeat-offense period for a different crime." The court set the sentence after finding A guilty of special intimidation and taking into account, among other things, that he had reached a settlement with D.

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