That post where you may sympathize with the murderer
A student in Korea killed his mother and hid the body for eight months. Generally when you hear about something like this, the murderer is the batshit one that you cringe to hear about. Not in this case.
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - Police apprehended a student Thursday for allegedly murdering his mother, having been unable to deal with her increasing academic expectations, and leaving her body to rot for months in their apartment.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the high school senior, 18, stabbed his mother, 51, in the throat with a kitchen knife in March and left her body to decompose in a room for eight months.
"I was afraid of the severe punishment I was going to receive when my mother found out that I forged my grades to say I was 62nd in the nation during the next day's Parent Teacher Night," confessed the student.
The names of the student and his family members were undisclosed to the media.
Authorities said the student confessed that his mother constantly pressured him to be "first in the nation," and to "go to Seoul National University's School of Law.
Police say that the mother resorted to violence and other means of torture including withholding the teenager's food or sleep, when his grades failed to meet her expectations.
Authorities found that the student had been forging his report card since middle school and his actual pretest scores put the teen academically within the nation's top 4,000 students. Police also found that his self-graded scores of the College Scholastic Ability Test earlier in the month put him in similar outstanding ranking.
Police found that the young man had sealed the room door with glue as the odor from the decomposing body began to grow.
The student was caught after his estranged father, who recently returned after walking out on the family five years ago, called the police after detecting the putrid odor.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/student-murders-mother-hides-body-apartment-055002274.html
I just saw this on the news about five minutes ago and was shocked. It's not in the article above (maybe Japanese news has more details since it's so close?), but apparently when authorities searched the apartment, they found lots of evidence of abuse. Pants filled with holes that had dried blood from being beaten. Golf clubs and a bat that were apparently used to hit him with when he didn't study well enough. According to the boy, his mom would make him study for 10+ hours a day, not allowing him time to eat or sleep much of the time. This was all because she wanted him to go to the University of Seoul, the top university in the country.
They also showed pictures of the apartment (house?) he was living in. I don't know if it was from before or after the murder, but it was a mess. When I first saw the pictures, I thought it was a segment on a hoarder, not a murderer. Regardless, that boy must have some serious emotional and/or mental issues after all he went through.
I really hope that the system goes easy on him. I don't know anything about the judicial system in South Korea, but I see this being self-defense and not murder. Anyone who would do that to another person, much less their own kid, deserves what's coming to them. I can understand wanting your kids to succeed, but forcing them into what I can only assume is a form of insanity for your own delusions? No. GTFO.
Sorry if this is a bad example. I'm new to the comm, but I definitely felt a huge sense of :( when I was watching the news.
Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - Police apprehended a student Thursday for allegedly murdering his mother, having been unable to deal with her increasing academic expectations, and leaving her body to rot for months in their apartment.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the high school senior, 18, stabbed his mother, 51, in the throat with a kitchen knife in March and left her body to decompose in a room for eight months.
"I was afraid of the severe punishment I was going to receive when my mother found out that I forged my grades to say I was 62nd in the nation during the next day's Parent Teacher Night," confessed the student.
The names of the student and his family members were undisclosed to the media.
Authorities said the student confessed that his mother constantly pressured him to be "first in the nation," and to "go to Seoul National University's School of Law.
Police say that the mother resorted to violence and other means of torture including withholding the teenager's food or sleep, when his grades failed to meet her expectations.
Authorities found that the student had been forging his report card since middle school and his actual pretest scores put the teen academically within the nation's top 4,000 students. Police also found that his self-graded scores of the College Scholastic Ability Test earlier in the month put him in similar outstanding ranking.
Police found that the young man had sealed the room door with glue as the odor from the decomposing body began to grow.
The student was caught after his estranged father, who recently returned after walking out on the family five years ago, called the police after detecting the putrid odor.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/student-murders-mother-hides-body-apartment-055002274.html
I just saw this on the news about five minutes ago and was shocked. It's not in the article above (maybe Japanese news has more details since it's so close?), but apparently when authorities searched the apartment, they found lots of evidence of abuse. Pants filled with holes that had dried blood from being beaten. Golf clubs and a bat that were apparently used to hit him with when he didn't study well enough. According to the boy, his mom would make him study for 10+ hours a day, not allowing him time to eat or sleep much of the time. This was all because she wanted him to go to the University of Seoul, the top university in the country.
They also showed pictures of the apartment (house?) he was living in. I don't know if it was from before or after the murder, but it was a mess. When I first saw the pictures, I thought it was a segment on a hoarder, not a murderer. Regardless, that boy must have some serious emotional and/or mental issues after all he went through.
I really hope that the system goes easy on him. I don't know anything about the judicial system in South Korea, but I see this being self-defense and not murder. Anyone who would do that to another person, much less their own kid, deserves what's coming to them. I can understand wanting your kids to succeed, but forcing them into what I can only assume is a form of insanity for your own delusions? No. GTFO.
Sorry if this is a bad example. I'm new to the comm, but I definitely felt a huge sense of :( when I was watching the news.