KOR
▲ Busan Dongnae Police Station
Two teachers who illegally collected donations and delivered them to a fellow teacher dismissed for sexually harassing his students have been referred to prosecutors.
The Busan Dongnae Police Station announced today (October 17) that it has forwarded two men in their 40s, A and B, to prosecutors without detention on charges of violating the Act on the Collection and Use of Donations.
Working as elementary school teachers, the suspects are accused of posting messages in an online teacher community between March and May 2024 urging colleagues to help a dismissed teacher, C, without registering the donation collection with the relevant authorities, thereby raising some KRW 30 million.
The posts reportedly claimed that teacher C had to leave the classroom after being wrongfully reported for child abuse.
However, C was actually put on trial not for child abuse, but on charges of sexually harassing two elementary school students, and was finalized with a fine of KRW 30 million. It was reported that the collected donations were used to pay this fine.
Police investigations began following a complaint filed by a current teacher who found out about the situation belatedly.
A police official explained, "We received the case in April of this year, conducted an investigation, and recently forwarded the two suspects."
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