[NB]Court punish woman for beating abusive husband to death

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 Woman beats 'abusive husband' to death for violating restraining order

 

: Yonhap News via Nate

 

Since getting married in 1996, her husband beat her and her two sons habitually, threatening often to kill them with knives and scissors. The wife eventually began suffering from vision impairment from his abuse combined with stress and depression and finally got a divorce last year. 

 

Despite the divorce, the husband dropped by often to physically abuse her, leading her to get a restraining order barring him from getting close to their home and their sons' schools. 

 

Less than a week after the court approved the restraining order, he went to his youngest son's school and demanded that he be expelled. The husband then went to the wife's home and threatened her with a knife. While attempting to run, she avoided his attacks but ended up getting into a physical fight with him where she used a frying pan to hit him, breaking his rib cage which eventually led to his death from excessive bleeding.

 

The court ordered a 2 year 6 month jail sentence and 3 years of probation, reasoning, "She had enough time to run from the situation but she turned and attacked him. The situation turned from one of self defense to one of an aggressive attack." 

 

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1. [+2,106, -25] Wow, her husband did all that to her and she still gets no help from the law. He even found their kids and threatened them with knives... did the court want her to just take it all and do nothing about it??? They take these cases so lightly just because it doesn't affect their own lives...

 

2. [+2,071, -53] Are the judges insane?? It wouldn't be weird at all to just say she's innocent... She got vision impairment from being beat so hard by her husband.. he threatened her with weapons... he violated his restraining order and visited their kids... Seems our court is on the side of the criminal!! 

 

3. [+1,510, -30] I knew our law system was in the shits but this bad? Imagine how bad step mothers are to their kids when even birth fathers are like this to their own kids.

 

4. [+73, -1] So when a man comes at you and threatens to kill you with a knife, you're not allowed to defend yourself and fight back. I guess you're only innocent in the eyes of the court if you get yourself killed by the blade.

 

5. [+71, -1] This is why you can't let people who've done nothing but be cooped up in a room all their lives to study to become judges actually become judges because they have no real world experience. 

 

6. [+69, -2] She spent nearly a decade having her life constantly threatened. Not once did the law help her. Should she have accepted her death then? 

 

7. [+34, -2] So a woman defended herself against a man threatening her with a knife using nothing but a frying pan... and the court is saying that's not self defense? 

 

8. [+31, -1] I can't believe the court doesn't think she did it out of self defense... she aggressively attacked him? Then what about the decade of suffering her and her kids had to be under?

[Ash Ketchum]

The bias against women is too fucking transparent.  Pathetic and disgusting.

[Tadpole.]

smh patriarchy

[Nev Schulman]

She had enough time to run away? WTF the woman could be beaten up to death it was simply self defense. They heard the story and they dare to blame her for beating him with a frying pan? smh...

[TIM£]

Korea's ignorance on mental health is alarming 

[Charlie Sheen]

Disgusting.

[h0neanias]

Yeah, turn your back on someone with a knife, why don't you. It's called self-defense, not run-and-get-stabbed.

[Skibop!!]

clearly she didn't intend to kill him, it says he died of internal injuries

[Regina]

I shouldn't be surprised because the Korean court system has always been shit with domestic violence, but their reason for holding her accountable is a new level of ridiculous. They said it went from self-defense to an aggressive attack, but if a man is threatening a woman with a knife and she can't fight him off herself, is she NOT supposed to fight him off with any means possible? Is she just supposed to lay there and let him attack her? She did what she had to do when she couldn't get away from him. That's STILL self-defense, because it wasn't like she sought him out to kill him. No. He broke the restraining order, he went to HER home, he threatened her with a knife, and she did what she had to do to protect herself. Period.

[Symphonyâ„¢]

Who would turn their back to a person with a knife? The piece shit deserves to be dead. She should be into a mental institution instead of jail with all the pain and suffering she has been thru because of that bastard.

[sasha]

i would kill him too. period.

[jvng]

gg korea

[Yokai]

smh

[K a t]

Saddest thing is I don't think the court even knows how fucking idiotic they are.

[Taku]

MESS @ their incompetence and sheer stupidity. 

 

I hope the woman's legal representatives appeal the sentence or something.

[Си�у Пак]

What kind of lawyer did she get?? And what kind of prosecutor would ask jail in a case like that??

[lone1]

6. [+69, -2] She spent nearly a decade having her life constantly threatened. Not once did the law help her. Should she have accepted her death then? 

7. [+34, -2] So a woman defended herself against a man threatening her with a knife using nothing but a frying pan... and the court is saying that's not self defense? 

The Court,The Judge.....

no words,for an advance Country they lack allot.

[Grape Soda]

How do they know if she had enough time? Lol self defense is what in their opinion. Defending yourself from being killed

[indiechingu]

i would kill him too. period.

[Nada]

The bias against women is too fucking transparent.  Pathetic and disgusting.

 

[Johnny Suh]

Korea's law system is such a fucking joke

[Miss.Miss]

It's ridiculous. They focus so much on punishing the victim but the law should be there to protect. Who exactly are they protecting by putting in jail a women who fought against a violent man threatening to kill her? So what if she inadvertently killed him? Certainly they're not protecting her who has suffered, been traumatized with her life endangered for years, nor her children who have endured with so much, or even others who go through domestic abuse everyday and only get this kind of message from the law that's supposed to protect them.  Even that man that doesn't deserve any protecting ended up dead because of such a failed system allowing him to keep attacking and harassing him. 

[sriax]

Even if she did have time to get away Ithink the wife just snapped. And really, who could blame her. I wish the court took into account her mental stability during the husband's attack. Adrenaline, fear and anger could do crazy things to the mind.

 

I hope cases like these get pick up by organizations or international groups. She might need help.

[rockpaperscissor]

TBH, my country has a long way to go in recognizing battered woman syndrome/battered person syndrome, but this doesn't even go there. It seems like obvious run of the mill self defense. 

 

I wish there was a gofundme or something, so we could get her better legal representation for an appeal, or at least make sure she's comfortable when she gets out, pay for the sons' expenses, that kind of thing.

[JiSeo]

what the