‘Pencil Incident’ Perpetrator Parent Occupation Verification
Mo Police Inspector, Deputy Prosecutor’s Investigator
In front of an elementary school in Seocho-gu, Seoul, where the dead teacher was found on the 18th of last month. Hankyoreh data photo
While there are still suspicions that a teacher found dead at an elementary school in Seocho-gu, Seoul, made an extreme choice for ‘parent abuse,’ it was confirmed that the parties to the ‘abuse abuse suspicion’ were current police officers and prosecutors. The bereaved family has taken issue with the fact that the police reduced the cause of the incident to ‘personal affairs’ at the beginning of the incident and that until recently, “the crime suspect has not been confirmed,” but when the parents’ occupation was confirmed, they said, “the police investigation cannot be trusted.” strongly protested. Summarizing the explanations of the police and bereaved families on the 22nd, on the 18th of last month at an elementary school in Seocho-gu, the so-called ‘pencil incident’ that a second-year teacher A contacted immediately before his death, the mother and father of the students were incumbent police officers at the National Police Agency (Lieutenant). It turned out that he was a prosecutor and investigator. The ‘pencil incident’ was an argument that occurred on the 12th of last month when a student in class A scratched another student’s forehead. Prior to his death, Mr. A requested business counseling from the school 10 times, and the ‘pencil incident’ was mentioned in the record of his request for counseling. According to the contents of the consultation request, ‘I was relieved that the pencil case was resolved, but the parents related to the pencil case called me several times to my personal number and said that I was surprised and horrified.’ A colleague teacher mentioned this incident and reported that the complaint of the parents at this time may have influenced the death of the deceased, and the investigation was expanded to the police. As a result of the police investigation, the police officer, the mother of the perpetrator, exchanged a call with Mr. A on a work cell phone on the afternoon of the 12th, six days before A teacher died, and left her a text message. The father of the perpetrator, a prosecutor’s office investigator, also visited the school the next day and met with teacher A, the bereaved family said. As the party to the ‘suspicion of power abuse’ was confirmed as a police officer, the police’s behavior in the early days of the incident was virtually concluded as ‘personal affairs’ as the cause of the deceased’s death, and the behavior of asking reporters to refrain from reporting is also suspected. At the time, various online communities were circulating the claim that ‘the cause of the parents’ death’ was spreading, but a police official explained to the effect that ‘when I heard the diary of the deceased and the statements of fellow teachers, it had nothing to do with work and was the cause of personal affairs’. The bereaved family suspects that the police are protecting the ‘parents who abuse power’, who are police officers, even during the investigation process. In fact, the police said, “As a result of examining the deceased’s call history and parent’s cell phone, none of the parents involved in the incident made a personal phone call to the deceased first.” The police explained that the purpose was to “do more investigations.” The bereaved family is protesting that the police investigation is “unreliable.” The bereaved side of Mr. A told the Hankyoreh, “I doubt whether this slow investigation is related to the occupation of the student’s parents. From the perspective of the bereaved, I wonder if it is okay to entrust the investigation to the police,” he said. Regarding the suspicion of ‘covering my family’, a police official said, “When there was a report that the parents and the deceased had contacted several times, the parents protested strongly.” “Investigation is not possible,” he said. Reporter Park Ji-young jyp@hani.co.kr
2023-08-22 10:58:35
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