SOUTH KOREA – JANUARY, 2000 On January 14, 2000, an 18-year-old South Korean girl committed suicide by jumping from a building. On January 17, a forensic autopsy was performed, determining the cause of death as the failure of vital organs due to the fall. A police investigation later revealed the shocking motive behind her suicide – she had been regularly raped by her own father since the age of 9.
Her father was not mentally completely healthy – he suffered from schizophrenia. He claimed that the South Korean government was responsible for his daughter’s death. Allegedly, they had removed all the bones from her body to destroy the evidence.
The death of his daughter clearly haunted him for years. Fourteen years later, he shared photos of his dead daughter in the morgue on the internet. He wanted to spread what he believed was proof supporting his bizarre theory about her death. A few years before that, he had even sued the government, demanding financial compensation of 16.5 billion won (15 million dollars).
In 2016, he married a woman of Vietnamese nationality. Just two years later, in 2018, he was sentenced to six years in prison for raping and abusing her daughter.
