Myeong Jae-wan, a instructor accused of murdering a scholar inside a classroom / Courtesy of Daejeon Metropolitan Police Company
A court docket of appeals on Friday upheld a decrease court docket’s life imprisonment for a instructor accused of murdering a 7-year-old scholar at their faculty within the central metropolis of Daejeon a couple of 12 months in the past.
The Daejeon Excessive Court docket handed down the ruling to instructor Myeong Jae-wan, 49, after convicting her of stabbing the woman, Kim Ha-neul, to loss of life.
Myeong was indicted for luring the scholar to a classroom within the afternoon of Feb. 10, 2025, when the woman was leaving an afterschool care program, by providing her a e-book after which stabbing her there with a weapon she had ready prematurely. She was additionally charged with kicking and damaging a faculty laptop and assaulting one other instructor, a number of days earlier than the homicide.
The appellate court docket additionally confirmed the decrease court docket’s order for the instructor to put on an digital monitoring gadget for 30 years.
