The defendant shall be innocent.

1. 공소사실의 요지 피고인은 2018. 2. 5. 09:00경 서울 도봉구 B에 있는 C초등학교 5학년 1반 교실에서 자신의 딸인 D이 같은 반 친구인 피해자 E(12세)와 사이가 좋지 않아 등교를 거부한다는 이유로 같은 반 학생들이 앉아 있는 자리에서 피해자에게 “E, 너 나와!”라고 소리치고 앞으로 나온 피해자의 앞에서 손가락질을 하면서 “너 때문에 우리 00이가 학교 오기 싫다고 한다.”고 큰소리로 윽박지르며 위협하고 모욕감을 주는 등 피해자의 정서 발달에 위해를 가하는 등 정서적 학대 행위를 하였다.

2. Determination

A. “Cmotional abusive acts detrimental to the mental health and development of a child” under Article 17 subparag. 5 of the Child Welfare Act refers to an act of emotional abusive acts or tangible force not accompanied by the exercise of tangible force, but does not amount to physical damage. It includes not only cases where such act is practically detrimental to the mental health and normal development of a child, but also cases where there is a risk or possibility of causing such a result.

(See Supreme Court Decision 2015Do13488 Decided December 23, 2015, supra). In full view of the legislative structure, etc. of the Child Welfare Act, which provides that physical and emotional abuse, abandonment and neglect shall be punished by the same statutory penalty, “ emotional abuse that may cause harm to the mental health and development of a child” means “an act of emotional abuse that may cause harm to the mental health and development of a child,” and “an act that may cause harm to the mental health and development of a child, or cause considerable danger to it, to the extent that the child’s attitude and attitude of his/her mind and attitude, which the child considers is maintaining and growing normally, or to the extent that the child’s abandonment or neglect is identical.

This interpretation is somewhat abstract and wide range, but it is emotional in various forms.