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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:08 am Post subject: Korean woman with child slaves |
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For some reason they never show her picture...
http://pix11.com/2016/01/12/queens-woman-accused-of-holding-children-as-slaves-for-6-years/
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FLUSHING, Queens – The neat brick facade along the tree-lined Queens street gave no indication of the horrific crimes taking place inside, according to the district attorney.
Sook Yeong Park, 42, is accused of holding two South Korean children as slaves for six years, starting when they were just 9 and 11. Park, who faces charges of labor trafficking, among others, forced both children to work grueling hours at the house and at nearby businesses, forcing one child to sleep on the floor with no mattress and the other in a closet, according to the Queens District Attorney. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure where pix11.com is or what it is, but the ROK has stern laws about people's pictures. Ever notice that no alleged criminal ever has their face clearly displayed on Korean TV? There is a reason for that. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| I'm not sure where pix11.com is or what it is, but the ROK has stern laws about people's pictures. Ever notice that no alleged criminal ever has their face clearly displayed on Korean TV? There is a reason for that. |
PIX 11 is a New York news station, which does not need to abide by Korean law. For something as heinous as what the woman did, usually the news outlets show the accused in handcuffs being escorted out of a police station into the police car... |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| yodanole wrote: |
| I'm not sure where pix11.com is or what it is, but the ROK has stern laws about people's pictures. Ever notice that no alleged criminal ever has their face clearly displayed on Korean TV? There is a reason for that. |
PIX 11 is a New York news station, which does not need to abide by Korean law. For something as heinous as what the woman did, usually the news outlets show the accused in handcuffs being escorted out of a police station into the police car... |
Maybe she did some of the same "stuff" before leaving Korea, and knew ALL about covering her face with a black hoody?!!?
Pretty sure I've seen lots of other American footage of American hoods putting the hoodies up, too.
Is she, by chance, running a hagwon? Or, perhaps, one of GENO's universities?
Anyway, after ALL the necessary flash updates to watch the vid, it seems like one of the accused's family members said that the accused desired "not to be identified". I think, thankfully, that is still supposed to be a right of most Americans that are under investigation and have not been to court yet for their charge.
Shovelling snow for ten bucks, and what not, according to the Russian neighbour? I'm in no way defending the Korean chick at all, but maybe they had some sort of "allowance" system going on? They were 9 and 11 when it all began. Six years later, would make them 15 and 17, and I think, legal to work at a grocery store. If they were slaving at some place when they were 9 and 11, that's definitely a different story. If she really was FORCING them to do hard labour like a NK prison camp, yeah, she SHOULD burn. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:56 am Post subject: |
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A lot of the stuff sounded really bad, but this one paragraph stuck out as being something totally not wrong at all-
"One neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said she sometimes saw the kids in front of the house raking leaves or doing other chores. "Honestly you'd just think it was a cultural thing,"
What cultural thing? That's what kids are supposed to do. Rake the lawn and mow it. Go shovel snow. That stuff was normal in like the 1940s when kids weren't so coddled. There was a time when NOT having your kids do such things would be frowned on because you were raising a lazy child who had no respect for the household. |
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hellofaniceguy
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: On your computer screen!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| I'm not sure where pix11.com is or what it is, but the ROK has stern laws about people's pictures. Ever notice that no alleged criminal ever has their face clearly displayed on Korean TV? There is a reason for that. |
Not quite true....many of those arrested in korea have their pictures shown while in cuffs and being escorted by cops...
example, this guy was extradite back to korea a few months back...
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=C111US0D20151203&p=arthur+patterson
pictures of him in korea with korean cops are all over the news.
Covering up the face is ones' choice however in korea. |
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TheMeerkatLover
Joined: 26 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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Slavery has been a part of traditional 'Korean Culture' until the Japanese started seriously cracking down on the practice when they took over Korae in 1910.
Basically, she's just following the path of her 'unique cultural situation'!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Asia |
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