Transgender rape charge deemed legit

[Shana A]

Transgender rape charge deemed legit
September 11, 2009

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2909931

The Supreme Court yesterday reaffirmed a lower court's suspended jail sentence for a man found guilty of raping a transgender woman.

The Supreme Court maintained a three-year suspended jail term for the 29-year-old man, indicted on charges of raping a 58-year-old transgender woman in Busan in August 2008.

Prosecutors asked the highest court for a five-year jail time after the district and appellate courts rejected the request.

[barbie]

It was a kind of entertainment news yesterday here in S. Korea. As the supreme court here has been very conservative, the news could be a kind of surprise, but the society is aready ready to accept it.

Barbie~~