”Four broken bones” - Man in his 20s who assaulted his girlfriend appeals and gets sentence doubled - South Korea

A man in his 20s who was sentenced to one year and six months in prison in the first trial for repeatedly assaulting his girlfriend, causing her severe injuries including broken ribs, appealed the decision, and his sentence was instead doubled.
According to Yonhap News on the 13th, the Daejeon District Court overturned the original ruling and sentenced defendant A, a man in his 20s, to three years in prison in an appeal trial for assault charges.
Defendant A was on trial on suspicion of repeatedly assaulting Ms. B, a woman in her 20s with whom he had been in a relationship for approximately two years from March 2021.
In May 2021, Defendant A got into an argument with Mr. B at a friend's house in Gyeonggi-do and punched Mr. B in the side, breaking his ribs.
At his home in Seosan, Chungnam, he punched B, who was sleeping while drunk. As a result of this incident, B suffered a fracture of the inner wall of his eye socket and was hospitalized for four weeks.
The prosecution said, "Defendant A's assaults began two months after they began dating. During the two years they were together, Defendant A assaulted Ms. B eight times, and Ms. B only suffered a broken bone.
However, he was assaulted four times." The first-instance court had previously sentenced him to one year and six months in prison, saying, "We took into consideration the fact that the defendant and the victim were not able to settle the matter, the circumstances of the crime, and the number of crimes committed."
The prosecution and defendant A both appealed the decision, arguing that the sentence was inappropriate. The appeals court accepted the prosecution's argument. The appeals court stated, "The defendant repeatedly committed trivial crimes over a considerable period of time.
"He used violence without hesitation even in minor fights, and the quality of his crimes, having committed eight crimes, is extremely serious," the court said.
"The fact that the damage has not been compensated and the victim has paid a criminal deposit of 20
Considering the fact that he refused the 2,000,000 won (approximately 2,030,000 yen) payment and pleaded for severe punishment, the motive and circumstances of the crime, and his relationship with the victim, the sentence imposed by the original court was too light, and we accept the prosecutor's argument that the sentence was inappropriate.
" and sentenced him to three years in prison.