The judgment of the court below is reversed.

Defendant shall be punished by a fine of KRW 3,000,000.

The above fine shall not be paid by the defendant.

1. Summary of grounds for appeal;

A. In light of the fact-misunderstanding, the circumstance in which the victimized child and the defendant sent contact, the content of the G dialogue exchanged between the victimized child and the defendant, etc., the Defendant’s sending a text containing sexual content to the victimized child does not constitute sexual abuse.

B. The sentence of the lower court’s improper sentencing (or four months of imprisonment, one year of suspended sentence, 40 hours of lecture for sexual assault treatment, 80 hours of community service order) is too unreasonable.

2. Determination on the misapprehension of facts and misapprehension of legal principles

가. 공소사실의 요지 피고인에 대한 아동복 지법위반( 아동에 대한 음행 강요 ㆍ 매개 ㆍ 성희롱 등) 공 소사 실의 요지는, “ 누구든지 아동에게 성적 수치심을 주는 성희롱 등의 성적 학대행위를 하여서는 아니 됨에도, 피고인은 2017. 7. 31. 22:55 경 불상지에서 피해 아동에게 “ 하고 싶다 하 진짜 ㅋㅋ/ 너 때 매/ 미친다” 라는 내용의 문자 메시지를 전송한 것을 비롯하여 2017. 7. 29. 경부터 2017. 8. 14. 경까지 총 136회에 걸쳐 문자 메시지를 전송하는 방법으로 아동인 피해 아동에게 성적 수치심을 주는 성희롱 등의 성적 학대행위를 하였다“ 는 것으로서, 피고인이 피해 아동에게 성적인 내용의 문자 메시지를 보냄으로써 성적 학대행위를 하였다는 내용이다.

B. The term “sexual abuse” prohibited under the Child Welfare Act refers to sexual harassment, etc. that causes a sense of sexual shame to a child, and refers to sexual violence or cruel acts that may harm the child’s health and welfare or impede the normal development of the child.

Therefore, in light of the following circumstances acknowledged by the evidence duly adopted and examined by the lower court, the Defendant’s act of sending text messages, such as the facts charged, to the victimized child, solely based on the evidence submitted by the prosecutor, constitutes sexual humiliation as stipulated in Article 17 subparag. 2 of the Child Uniforms Act.