2014No3350 Violation of the Act on Special Cases concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (Use of Cameras, etc.)

(Recording)

A

Defendant

Jincinantship, grandchildren shall be held at a public trial.

Attorney B

Seoul Central District Court Decision 2014Kadan2956 Decided August 22, 2014

November 21, 2014

The defendant's appeal is dismissed.

1. Summary of grounds for appeal by the defendant;

(a) misunderstanding of facts: There was no intention.

B. Legal principles: The pictures of this case do not constitute images that have taken another person's body, which may cause sexual humiliation or shame.

2. Determination on the grounds for appeal

(1) Article 14(1) of the Act on Special Cases concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (hereinafter “Special Cases concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes”), which punishs an act of photographing another person’s body, which may cause sexual humiliation or shame against the latter’s will, is to protect the victim’s sexual freedom and freedom not taken without permission. Whether the body of another person taken falls under “the body of another person, which may cause sexual humiliation or shame.” In addition, the determination of whether the body of another person taken is objectively identical to the victim’s sexual, age group’s general and average person, from the standpoint of the victim’s general and average person of the same gender and age group, should be taken into account whether the body falls under the body that may cause sexual humiliation or humiliation, as well as clothes of the victim, degree of exposure, etc., the circumstances leading up to the photographer’s intent, place and distance of photographing, the image of the taken original body, and the body part of a specific body part.

Comprehensively taking into account each of the following factors, specific, individual, and relatively decided (see Supreme Court Decision 2008Do7007, Sept. 25, 2008).

(2) The following circumstances acknowledged by the evidence duly admitted and examined by the court below:

①) 피고인은 이 사건 당일 오후 2:00경부터 5:50경 적발될 때까지 길거리, 지하철역 등지에서 여러 여성들을 대상으로 사진을 촬영해 오다가, 오후 5:50경 지하철 7호선 고속터미널역에서 이 사건 범행을 저지르다가 적발된 점, ② 피고인은 같은 날 오후 5:50경 위 지하철 역내 에스컬레이터 앞에서 촬영대상 여성이 나타나기를 기다리면서 주변을 두리번거리던 중, 핫팬츠와 짧은 치마를 입은 여성 2명을 발견하자 바로 뒤쫓아 가면서 소니 디지털카메라를 이용하여 여성들의 뒷모습을 몰래 촬영한 점, ③ 사진 영상에 의하면 여성들의 엉덩이, 치마 및 핫팬츠 아래의 다리 모습이 촬영되어 있을 뿐, 여성들의 뒷모습 전신을 멀리서 촬영한 것은 아닌 점, ④ 범행 현장에서 피고인의 거동을 예의주시하던 단속 경찰관은 피고인이 여성들을 뒤따라가며 두 손을 모으고 그 안에 카메라를 넣어 몰래 촬영하는 장면을 목격하자 바로 그 자리에서 피고인을 정지시켜 촬영사실을 확인한 점, ⑤ 피고인은 수사기관에서 촬영의도와 관련하여 "주로 성형하여 얼굴이 예쁜 여자들을 대상으로 촬영하였다. 성적 욕구를 해결하기 위하여 활영하였다."고 진술한 점, ⑥ 따라서 피고인은 이 사건 범행 당시 짧은 치마, 핫팬츠 등을 입고 있는 여성을 피사체로 지정하여 그 전신 또는 광범위한 부분을 멀리서 촬영하였는데, 우연히 그 사진의 구조상 불가피하게 노출된 피해자들의 다리 부위, 특히 치마 밑 다리 부위 등이 포함되어 있었던 것으로는 볼 수 없고, 오히려 피고인은 처음부터 여성의 신체 일부 또는 특정 부위에 한정하여 영상을 촬영하려는 의도를 갖고, 이 사건 피해 여성들을 뒤쫓아 가면서 엉덩이, 치마 밑 다리에 집중하여 촬영한 것으로 보아야 하는 점, ⑦ 최근 인터넷 상에서 짧은 치마 등을 입은 여성의 치마 밑 다리 사진이 광범위하게 널리 유포되고 있고, 이러한 사진들이 대부분 성적 욕망 등을 자극하기 위한 수단으로 이용되고 있는 점 등의 사정을 종합해 보면, 피고인이 촬영한 이 사건 사진은 '성적 욕망 또는 수치심을 유발할 수 있는 다른 사람의 신체'를 촬영한 것에 해당하고, 피고인에게는 위와 같은 사진을 촬영하려는 고의 또한 갖고 있었음이 인정된다.

(3) In the instant case, the Defendant’s assertion that there is no evidence to verify whether the victimized female s/he was s/he s/ sheed about the “s/he was s/ shed.”

However, on the other hand, considering the characteristics of the instant crime, it cannot be concluded that the Defendant was unable to make a sense of shame due to the fact that the body part of the body of the Defendant was not known to the damaged female, and that the victimized female did not resist, or that he did not know it, cannot be said that the victimized female did not feel a sense of shame.

Furthermore, as seen earlier, whether the part taken by the defendant constitutes "the body of another person who may cause sexual humiliation or shame" or a sense of shame is objectively determined by taking into account whether it falls under the body that may cause sexual humiliation or shame from the perspective of the general and average people of the same gender and age group as the victim. As such, the image of the photograph taken by the defendant by emphasizing her her tur, turbb, burb, surb, etc. during the back habits of the victimized female, etc., falls under "the body that may cause sexual humiliation or shame" at the time of objectively examining from the perspective of the general and average people of the same gender and age group as the victims. Thus, there is no error in the judgment of the court below that convicted the defendant without confirming the victim's humiliation or emotions.

(4) All the Defendant’s assertion of mistake and misapprehension of legal principles is rejected.

3. Conclusion

Therefore, the defendant's appeal is dismissed in accordance with Article 364 (4) of the Criminal Procedure Act because it has no reason to appeal.

Judgment of the presiding judge;

Judges Seo Young-young

Judges Choi Jin-hee