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We previously reported exclusively on a case where a severe 20-something employee with a developmental disability was sexually assaulted by a 60-year-old executive at a company and even gave birth to a child. The workplace, which is officially certified by the government as a standard workplace for people with disabilities and receives various benefits, is maintaining its certification despite an ongoing police investigation.

Morning Zoom-In, reporter Je Hui-won.

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Kim, a 29-year-old woman with a severe level-2 intellectual disability, recently gave birth after suffering sexual assault from a 60-year-old executive at a laundry company.

This company, which was Kim's first job, had been certified as a standard workplace for people with disabilities by the government two years ago.

[Victim's Father: She went through an interview via the Incheon branch of the Korea Employment Agency for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities and got hired. I trusted them even more because it was a standard workplace.]

The company received benefits such as tax reductions and sales support under the condition that it employed more than 10 people with disabilities, accounting for over 30 percent of its total workforce. Over the past three years alone, employment subsidies paid to the company have reached approximately 140 million won.

The company's CEO is the son of the 60-year-old executive who committed the assault, making it essentially a family-run business. Last month, the company held an internal disciplinary committee and dismissed the executive, who is the father.

[Victim's Father: In my view, this is just cutting off the tail to save the body. I didn't even know that executive existed in that company.]

In response to inquiries from SBS regarding follow-up measures against the company, the Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities, which manages and supervises standard workplaces for people with disabilities, stated that it issued a corrective order centered on employee education and measures to prevent recurrence.

The agency explained that while this matter falls under 'human rights violations' according to agency regulations, canceling a workplace certification for human rights violations such as sexual violence requires 'three or more occurrences within two years,' meaning it does not meet the criteria for certification revocation.

Critics point out that protective regulations under the Welfare of Persons with Disabilities Act are lax compared to other facilities such as welfare centers.

[Park Min-seo / Lawyer: For daycare facilities for people with disabilities or welfare centers for people with disabilities, a single violation of sexual violence can lead to facility closure. The legal system continues to mass-produce cases where individuals remain unprotected in blind spots...]br />
The Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities conducted on-site inspections of the company three times starting the year before last to check for human rights violations, but failed to find even a single clue about this incident.

(Video Editing: Yu Mi-ra, Design: Lee Ga-jin, VJ: No Jae-min)