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Last month in Chuncheon, a man in his 50s who lured an 11-year-old elementary school student and imprisoned him in a remote factory was arrested.
This man was caught by the police following luring two middle school girls to the factory in the same way as before.
This is Reporter Lee Seung-yeon.
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A milling factory in a remote village.
A 5th grade elementary school girl who left her home in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do last month was found here five days following she went missing.
A man in his 50s seduced the child by saying he would help the runaway youth.
The man lured the child into the place where he rented and lived.
The missing children were found on the second floor of this building.
A man who used to wander around the country as a day laborer recently rented a corner of the second floor of a factory and lived there.
The man was arrested on charges of violating the Missing Children Act.
However, this was not the first time that children were lured into factories.
In July of last year, a middle school student living in Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, was lured to a milling plant by using social media.
Fortunately, the police found the student two hours following the missing person report, but the case was closed because there was no damage.
Four months later, the man was targeting a middle school student living in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do.
I lured them to the same place with the same technique, but this time they were arrested by the police.
However, he was investigated by the prosecution without detention, saying that there was no damage to the middle school girl.
The man, who was released, targeted even elementary school students three months later.
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″The investigation is still ongoing. There is also the privacy of the victim. It is difficult for me to answer that far.″
Experts point out that a closer investigation is needed to see if there was no psychological dominance of the victims, so-called gaslighting, regarding the fact that there were no statements of damage by female students in the two cases.
The Chuncheon District Prosecutor’s Office prosecutes the man for violating the Missing Children Act, and is considering indicting the previous case being investigated.
This is Lee Seung-yeon from MBC News.
