A person in his 40s who reduce his international spouse’s hair and injured her with a weapon after she refused to just accept his apology has been given a suspended sentence.
Decide Kim Yong-shin of the Gwangju District Court docket’s Legal Division 8 sentenced the person Monday to eight months in jail with two years of probation on fees of aggravated assault.
The courtroom additionally ordered him to endure probation supervision and full 40 hours of home violence remedy.
He was indicted for slicing his spouse’s hair and injuring her finger with a weapon at their house in Gwangju round 7:40 p.m. on July 9.
He had been messaging one other international girl on his cellphone when his spouse observed. When she refused to just accept his apology, he turned enraged and assaulted her.
She moved to Korea for marriage however suffered a number of cases of home violence from her husband. Regardless of this, she requested the courtroom for leniency, saying she needed to “give him a remaining likelihood.”
“The crime includes aggravated assault in opposition to a partner of international nationality, and its circumstances and technique present it’s not minor,” the decide mentioned. The courtroom added that its choice “thought of the sufferer’s said want that he not be punished.”
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Occasions, is translated by generative AI and edited by The Korea Occasions.
