"There's been domestic violence all my life"...The son who killed his father with a blunt instrument [Y transcript]

■ Host: Anchor Cho Jin-hyuk
■ Starring: Attorney Kim Sung-soo

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◇Anchor> There is a persistent murder case that was reported over the weekend, so let's look into it. It happened in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, and a son in his 30s killed a father in his 70s. He was eventually arrested, right?

◆Kim Sung-soo> That's right. On October 27th of last month, he killed his father with a blunt instrument after hearing that his son in his 30s hit his mother, and was there a crime on the 27th? On the 31st, he attempted suicide with his mother and attempted an extreme choice, but after failing, he turned himself in to the police. So, on November 1st, the Seoul Western Police Station applied for an arrest warrant, and the investigation is currently being conducted with the court arrested for fear of escape.

◇Anchor> The son answered a reporter's question about the motive of the crime before the investigation into the validity of the arrest warrant. I'll look at the screen for a moment and come back. Of course, if true, wouldn't it be very tragic that the victim of domestic violence eventually became the perpetrator of the murder? There are cases where domestic violence problems accumulate for a long time and eventually lead to other crimes, and I heard there are many similar cases like this?

◆Kim Sung-soo> That's right. This case is also known to be a household where there were actual reports of domestic violence in 2017 and 2021. As a result, there seems to be a story about whether domestic violence was the cause, and as you said, there are many cases like this as well as reported in the news about domestic violence, so there is a need for a revision of the law. The Domestic Violence Punishment Act was enacted in 1998. However, I think it's time to think again about the reason why we haven't been able to prevent such a tragedy even though it has been revised several times since the actual fact.

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: Song Eun-hye, editor of the digital news team

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