Teens Drugged Father’s Coffee to Take Out Loans and Pay for Skincare Treatments

A teenage brother and sister have been indicted after drugging their father to unconsciousness and using his smartphone to take out tens of millions of won in loans.

On June 22, the Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office indicted the daughter, referred to as A, and her boyfriend, B, without detention on charges of robbery and computer fraud.

The younger brother of A was also referred to the juvenile division of the court on the same charges.

In 2024, the group crushed sleeping pills prescribed at a hospital, mixed them into coffee, and served it to the father.

While he was asleep, they used his smartphone to take out approximately 30 million won in non-face-to-face bank loans and withdrew a total of about 40 million won from his accounts to purchase gold.

Investigations revealed that they sold the gold for cash and spent the money on expenses such as skincare treatments.

The crime was discovered after the father woke up, realized his children were missing from the house, and filed a missing persons report.

Police located the siblings and B one day after the report was filed. However, during the initial investigation, the charge of computer fraud for taking out loans via the smartphone was applied only to B.

At the time, B testified that A had administered the sleeping pills, but A denied any involvement, and her younger brother also testified that she did not participate. The police concluded the case without further investigation.

However, the prosecution confirmed that the siblings were accomplices through a supplementary investigation conducted in November of last year.

When the siblings and B were confronted during a cross-examination, the siblings confessed, "We crushed the sleeping pills prescribed at the hospital, mixed them into the coffee, and gave it to our father."

The prosecution determined that A’s act of rendering her father unable to resist using sleeping pills and subsequently taking out loans using his phone constituted robbery, and indicted her along with B.

Reported by Jung Da-eun | Video by Kim Na-on | Graphics by Yang Hye-min | Produced by SBS Digital News
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