피고인은 2018. 5. 23. 13:08경 위 어린이집 ㅇㅇㅇ반에서, 피해자가 책장 위로 올라가 캐노피를 손으로 잡고 뛰어내리며 잡아 당겨 파손하자 피해자를 훈계하는 과정에서 피해자의 볼을 손으로 잡아 꼬집어 폭행하였다.

나. 피고인은 2018. 5. 25. 10:54경 위 어린이집 ㅇㅇㅇ반에서, 피해자가 출입문을 앞뒤로 흔들며 장난을 치자 피해자를 훈계하는 과정에서 손으로 피해자의 머리를 1회 쥐어박아 폭행하고, 같은 날 13:48경 위 어린이집 ㅇㅇㅇ반에서, 피해자가 벽면에 낙서를 하였다는 이유로 손으로 피해자의 머리를 밀고 볼을 잡아당겨 폭행하였다.

As a result, the defendant committed physical abuse against a child that may injure the child's body or injure the physical health and development of the child.

2. Determination

A. Article 3 subparag. 7 of the Child Welfare Act provides, “child abuse” refers to “any act of an adult, including a guardian, of harming a child’s health or welfare or of physical, mental, or sexual violence, or cruel treatment that may impede the normal development of a child, and of a child’s protector’s abandonment or neglect of a child.” In addition, Article 17 subparag. 3 of the same Act provides, “any physical abuse that may injure a child’s body or injure a physical health and development” as one of prohibited acts. Here, “physical harm” refers to “any act that causes a negative change to a child’s body to the extent equivalent thereto even if it does not reach the degree of injury that may injure the completeness or interfere with a physiological function of the child due to the exercise of physical force against the child.”

(See Supreme Court Decision 2015Do6781 Decided May 12, 2016, etc.).