I forgot to mentioned that the mother provided relevant info setting up to the phone recordings in her post at 35:00 (this video is really meant to be viewed in chronological order, else things get taken out of context). The police began investigating her husband for drugs, and they let him go because they didn’t find any drugs and didn’t investigate into the sexual abuse.
In the video recording the police kept mentioning that the group sex was not in their testimony, so whatever video they had (I’m not sure what it was, perhaps it was video of the group sex since the police kept bringing it up?), whatever the video was, was not evidence for the testimony she provided (which was that the grandfather tried to rape her, then her husband beat her). Also, if we are trusting the police’s words, in the beginning of the clip, the police mentioned that she has not met with the husband. but then at the end (after the mother gets emotional and upset that they haven’t summoned her husband) the police suddenly claims that she did investigate him.
The 3rd phone recording has more names. They were acquitted because they said they didn’t know the mother and passed a lie detector test. no other evidence was provided.
well…outside korea, kpop fans are the ones who first learned of this story. they are the ones you will see spreading this news all over twitter, and you can’t expect kpop fans (who are mostly idol obsessed teenage girls) to come up with convincing campaigns. I think that’s the main reason why this news hasn’t reached outside of kpop websites and forums.
that’s the main reason people started to believe the story. because it was being deleted on korean websites. that’s why they netizens suggested they upload a video to youtube since the korean govt (or whoever was doing the deleting) don’t have control over US media.
I can count one direct claim of a crime committed by a named individual, which is that she claims her husband raped her at some past point.
Knowing nothing of the SK legal system specifically, I know spousal rape is often difficult to prove, much less if it occurred years prior. It will be a he said/she said case and that is the strongest actionable claim there.
Reading in more detail she claims that not only does her own family abuse her and all have sex together, but that her husbands family does as well. Orgies involving hundreds of people a day.
if you search the dark corners of the web, you can find videos like that, so that alone is not reason enough for me to call bs.
if it is fake, i can’t understand why.
so far there has been dozens of post by 3 different individuals and they have all been fairly consistent with each other in their claims (or they piece together missing parts in each other’s claim).
for example, the youngest son mentioned they moved to korea (from the US) when he was 4 (and his brother probably at age 6). his father then forced them to go to international school so they would not learn proper korean to communicate with authorities.
the older brother (who has lived in the US during the critical age of language development) has posted and spoken mostly in english. when it it in korean, it is not good korean. so there are small details like that, which can be inferred from their postings, that make the story believable. (it is suspicious why he does not know proper korean, and this explanation explains it)
also the police did ***not *drop the case because their testimony/claims did not make sense. they detective said even if it is 100%, it is not enough. the case was dropped because people they accused said they did not know the family and passed a lie detector test. ** a lie detector test was used as their ultimate evidence.
the only contradiction is what the detective and police claimed, not the family. if you listen to the phone recordings, the women sounds paranoid and emotional, and that is possible reasons for why the authorities wanted to end the case quickly and not have to deal with her anymore. I mean, she was trapped in a prostituion ring for decades and has no outside connections or people on her side. meanwhile, the husband is chilling with general ambassadors, doctors and politicians. who would believe her even if this story is true?
I don’t have time to assess her claims in general, but I want to question why you think this particular thought.
Mentally insane people are not stupid or simple, they’re just insane. So a genius with bipolar disease is still a genius - he just goes through manic periods of intense activity and euphoria with depressive periods of negative emotions and lethargy. A genius with schizophrenia is still a genius - he’s just trying to solve imaginary problems. (Go see A Beautiful Mind or read up on the life of John Nash as an example). Crazy people can be remarkably persuasive sometimes.
you’re right and i take that back. i have read about john nash and seen that movie.
what i meant is that it is not just one person making the claim. it is 3 different people making the same claim. one person can be menally insane and persuasive, but to coordinate their story with each other so well that is all fits together?
News articles are reporting that the women won the custody battle against her husband. I know this doesn’t prove that her story 100% true, but one has to think that there may be a bit of truth in it for the court to grant her full custody of the kids.
In another turn of events, it was also reported that she has been kidnapped after the court ruling. This is the new image that netizens are passing around SNS:
“Under Korean law, as long as 2 family members are in agreement, it is permission-able to send a family member into mental hospital without any reason given. Hence there are many related cases of abuse.”