Teenage Siblings Indicted for Drugging Father to Steal Money

Teenage siblings who secretly drugged their father with sleeping pills and used his mobile phone to take out tens of millions of won in loans have been indicted.
Initially, the police referred only the older sister's boyfriend to the prosecution on fraud charges, but the prosecution confirmed the siblings' complicity through supplementary investigations.
According to legal circles on July 14, the Criminal Division 1 of the Ulsan District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Lee Ho-seok) indicted the teenage girl, referred to as A, and her boyfriend, B, without detention on June 22 on charges of robbery and computer fraud.
The younger brother of A was referred to the juvenile division of the court on the same charges.
In 2024, the group mixed sleeping pills into coffee and gave it to their father (in his 40s). After he fell asleep, they used his mobile phone to take out approximately 30 million won in bank loans and withdrew a total of about 40 million won from his account to purchase gold.
It was revealed that they subsequently sold the gold at a jewelry store to convert it into cash, which they used for expenses such as skincare treatments.
The crime was uncovered when the father woke up, realized his children were missing, and filed a missing person report.
The police located the siblings and the boyfriend, B, within a day. However, they initially referred only B to the prosecution, applying charges of computer fraud for taking out the loans using the mobile phone.
Although B confessed to A's involvement in drugging the father during police questioning, A claimed she had not participated in the crime, and her younger brother also stated that his sister was not involved, leading the police to close the case without further investigation.
However, the prosecution confirmed the siblings' complicity through supplementary investigations in November of last year.
When the siblings and the boyfriend were confronted during a face-to-face investigation, the siblings confessed, saying, "We ground up sleeping pills prescribed at a hospital and mixed them into the coffee we gave our father."
The prosecution determined that A's act of drugging her father to render him unable to resist, and then stealing his phone to take out loans, constituted robbery. Consequently, they indicted her along with B.
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