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A third-grade student in middle school beat the owner of a convenience store and inflicted serious injuries for 8 weeks before he said he did not sell alcohol to him.
In the course of the assault, this middle school student made fun of himself, saying, ‘If you commit a crime, you won’t be punished.
Reporter Lee Byung-sun covered the story.
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Early in the morning, a young-looking man picks up alcohol at a convenience store.
However, when the clerk refused to pay following knowing that he was a middle school student, the assault started suddenly.
He threatened the clerk by pushing him once morest the wall, and even the clerk who appeared following him kicked him in the face.
[피해 편의점주]
“(The student) asked me to hit you. I’m a young boy, so try hitting me…”
The owner suffered a serious injury to one of his eyes, which was on the verge of blindness, and suffered serious injuries with a broken nose bone for 8 weeks.
When the police arrived, they only checked the personal information of the perpetrator and did not arrest him.
The day following the police returned the student who was the perpetrator of the assault, the student returned to the convenience store.
He asked the clerk to delete the CCTV footage he had taken, but he eventually took the clerk’s cell phone and ran away.
The police arrested the assailant at that time, but it turned out that he was not a law-abiding boy aged between 10 and 14 following his birthday this year.
[경찰 관계자]
“First of all, I’m a junior high school student, and the assault situation at the scene was over, so I didn’t arrest him at that time in order to investigate further…”
The police have booked the assailant on charges of injury and are investigating the damage once morest the store owner and clerk.
This is Lee Byung-sun from MBC News.
Video coverage: Park Young-hyun (Wonju)
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