Solo Assault Turned Out to Be Group Violence by High School Girls After Prosecution Probe

A case initially referred by police as a solo assault by a 15-year-old girl has been revealed through supplementary prosecution investigations to be a group assault involving three high school girls.

The Women and Children Crime Investigation Department of the Busan District Prosecutors' Office announced today (September 16) that it has indicted three high school girls without detention on charges of special injury.

Initially, the Busan Saha Police Station referred the case, viewing it as a solo crime in which a female student identified as A assaulted a female middle school student identified as B, inflicting injuries such as a concussion.

However, while reviewing the case records, the prosecution suspected that in addition to A, female students C and D may have also participated in the crime, and requested supplementary investigations from the police with the intent of booking accomplices.

In response, the police replied with supplementary investigation results indicating that A had assaulted the victim unilaterally despite attempts by the other two to stop her.

Consequently, the prosecution launched a direct investigation.

They confirmed that an audio file secretly recorded by victim B at the time of the incident and submitted to the police had been omitted from the investigative records, and obtained it again from B.

The prosecution stated that the recording contained circumstances showing that C brought 15 companions to the scene, threatened B, and led the crime.

D was also confirmed to have participated in the crime, such as demanding answers from B to force her to fight in a so-called yacha style to prevent police reports, or recording the fight on video.

Yacha refers to a method of fighting barehanded without protective gear, agreeing not to report each other even if injuries occur.

Due to A's false statements, B was even disciplined as a perpetrator of mutual violence by the Office of Education's School Violence Countermeasures Deliberation Committee.

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