Parent Who Abused and Cursed at School Staff 274 Times Sentenced to Prison

Judge Kang Choong-gu of the Criminal Division 1 at the Yeongdong Branch of the Cheongju District Court sentenced an indicted parent, only identified as A, to one year and four months in prison and a fine of 200,000 won, and took A into custody yesterday (August 20) on charges including violations of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., and child abuse for cursing at and yelling at school staff.

A is accused of calling 21 school staff members from an elementary school in Okcheon, the Okcheon Office of Education, and the North Chungcheong Office of Education 274 times between September 2023 and March of last year to hurl insults and scream, while A's child, B, was enrolled there.

A committed the crimes while protesting and filing various malicious complaints after child B was named as a school violence perpetrator and subjected to an investigation by the School Violence Countermeasures Deliberation Committee.

A also visited the responsible departments and caused disturbances, and it was reported that some staff members received psychiatric treatment.

A was additionally indicted for hitting child B at home with a plastic rod in June 2024 because B got a math problem wrong.

Judge Kang ruled, "Even if a parent's demands have a legitimate purpose, actions that infringe upon the personal rights of school staff and disrupt the operation of the school itself cannot be justified."

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