The transmission of January 23 of MBC’s “True Story Expedition” aired a story entitled “please take my dad guilty of sexual crimes”.
The episode revealed a case in which a woman lost her normal life because of her father, sexual molester. Lee Ji-Ae (pseudonym) shared: “I kept a common wedding with my husband, Ko Jun-Beom (pseudonym), for 13 years. Later I raised our two children alone“.” He explained that they had separated at the end of 2018. He said: “I met him when I was 18. We have 15 years of difference. I was pregnant with our first child within a month of our meeting, so we started living together“.” Despite Ji-Ae’s pregnancy, her husband went to meet potential candidates for marriage and started attacking her after childbirth. The abuses intensified to the point that she even thrown their newborn baby away.
The violence was serious enough to require ji-ae hospital care. He confessed: “At that time I was afraid of disobeying my husband. When I knew nothing, I had the terror of being abandoned“.” However, their eldest son also underwent abuse starting from the age of five. The son said: “He gave me a punch in the face and once he struck me at the solar plexus so strong that I passed out.“
Ji-Ae admitted: “I could not have imagined that he would do the same with our daughter. When I discovered it, I wanted to kill him“.” In July last year, his daughter spoke for his father’s first time. The daughter revealed that she had suffered sexual abuse of the father. Ji-Ae immediately reported it to the Sunflower Center. His daughter shared: “I came to report that my father attacked me sexually. It happened when I was about 7-8 years old“.” Feeling this, SEO in has expressed anger: “How could such a thing be done, unless it is crazy?“Park Ji-Hoon added:”Is it at least human?“
The daughter said in tears: “I was afraid to tell my mother because my father would have known I was and I didn’t think I could talk to my brother. If my father hadn’t done those things, I could have lived a normal life.“
Ji-ae explained: “In our neighborhood people said: “There is no father like him”. Everything was for the show“.” She added that her husband was a researcher at a large company and graduated from K University and the S -University specialization program. Ko Jun-Beom had also been at the head of a book discussion club and had participated in activism for human rights and animals. SEO in has expressed disbelief, “Did he commit crimes in the house pretending to defend human rights outside?“Ji Jin-Hee added:”Looking at him makes me furious. It is difficult to believe that not only has abused his wife and son, but he also harassed his 7 -year -old daughter“.”
Since 2023, Ko Jun-Beom has not returned from the Philippines, causing delays in the investigation. At the age of 51, he enrolled in a school of pharmacy in the Philippines and was seen strictly attending a 30 -year -old woman younger than him. Ko Jun-Beom disappeared on December 23, 2024 after saying he would return to Korea, and later he was reported that he was in prison.
Ko Jun-Beom has been offended and detained for investigations on the accusation of forced harassment on a minor in the context of family relationships, a case reported by Ji-Ae in July 2024. In a letter to his daughter, Ko Jun-Beom has written: “I think I did something crazy because the relationship between me and your mother was bad“.” Professor Lim Myung-Ho criticized him: “This is a classic case of deviation of responsibility. It is extremely cowardly.“
In view of the process scheduled for next month, Ji-Ae expressed his concerns: “It is a case of forced harassment within the family, but legally it may not be recognized as a crime“.” In the official family register, the name of the father is absent since her husband forced her to maintain the benefits for a single parent. Ji-ae revealed: “He even told me to undergo an investigation to show that the second child came from another man.Ko Jun-Beom has real estate, including an apartment and an office in the province of Gyeongi, while the assets ascertained by his parents amounts to over 3 billion won. His parents are pressing on the children of Ji-Ae to solve the case by offering financial conditions.
