A man in his twenties has been sentenced to prison for entering a women's bathhouse and changing area while pretending to be a woman, where he secretly observed women undressing.
According to Yonhap News, Kim Mi-kyung, a judge at the Daegu District Court, sentenced the man, identified as A, to eight months in prison on September 14 for violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes. The court also mandated that he complete 40 hours of a sexual violence treatment program and imposed a three-year employment restriction in institutions related to children, teenagers, and individuals with disabilities.
A was accused of entering a sauna in Daegu's Jung District in April 2022, where he deceived staff into believing he was a woman and stayed for about an hour while watching women undress.
In November of the same year, he entered another women's bathhouse in Daegu's Dong District, where he remained for approximately three hours and was additionally charged for observing multiple women undressing.
A also has a prior record, having received a juvenile protection order for a sexual violence crime in 2016.
The court considered that A entered the women's bathhouse twice to satisfy his sexual desires and that there were numerous women present at the time. The fact that he committed the offense again while awaiting trial for the previous incident was viewed as an aggravating circumstance, leading to the prison sentence.
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