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Police mentioned Tuesday {that a} man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of secretly filming feminine college students at a personal academy, in addition to different girls in public areas, to supply exploitative content material.
Gangwon Provincial Police mentioned the suspect is accused of utilizing smartphones to secretly movie 17 feminine college students below their uniform skirts 141 instances from January 2020 to October, whereas he was working at a personal cram college, or hagwon, in Gangwon Province. The person then created 1,810 items of sexually exploitative content material with the footage.
He’s additionally accused of filming the physique elements of 261 grownup girls at cafes, comfort shops and health facilities and producing and possessing 2,843 items of express materials.
It was reported that the dimensions of sexually express materials created from pupil victims reached 9,000 gigabytes, whereas the footage produced for grownup victims reached 1.71 terabytes.
The crime was uncovered after the police acquired an nameless tip from a employee who seen a person appearing suspiciously along with his cellphone and showing across the identical time in areas frequented by teenagers.
The police tracked the suspect’s motion and uncovered particulars of his actions. Via three months of investigation — together with utilizing CCTV footage, telecommunications and monetary data — the police recognized the suspect and have been capable of apprehend him.
The investigation revealed the person used an altered smartphone, which didn’t make a shutter sound throughout filming, in addition to a smartwatch, to commit the crimes. Police mentioned there was no proof of distributing the produced supplies on-line. To stop any secondary harm, police are working with the Korea Communications Requirements Fee and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Household to watch on-line and delete content material ought to any emerge.
The police are persevering with their investigation into the person with the potential of discovering extra crimes.
