Posted : 2014-07-06 16:56
Updated : 2014-07-06 19:32
Monk jailed for raping and killing woman
By Jung Min-ho
The Supreme Court Sunday upheld a six-year prison term for a monk who raped two women and beat one to death in what he claimed was "necessary treatment for mental illness." The judges, under presiding judge Lee Sang-hoon, upheld lower court verdicts against the monk, 57, and ordered him to undergo 80 hours of therapy. The court also ordered that his personal details and conviction be made public for five years following his release. The monk, from the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, was indicted in April for raping and inflicting fatal injuries with a wooden instrument on a woman, 20, "in order to cure her depression." She died of shock. The monk was also charged with raping and beating another woman to "exorcise all the ghosts from her body." The monk claimed the sex was consensual, a claim that the court rejected. After assaulting the women, he tied their hands and legs with plastic wraps and kept them in solitary confinement. "He severely damaged the victims physically and mentally much beyond the limit of medical treatment, which caused one of them to die," the court said in a statement. |
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