{"id":67019,"date":"2022-09-12T15:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=67019"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T01:27:26","slug":"south-korean-resident-sentenced-to-prison-for-metaverse-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/south-korean-resident-sentenced-to-prison-for-metaverse-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean resident sentenced to prison for metaverse harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old South Korean resident was sentenced to four years in prison for sexually harassing minors in an unnamed &#8216;popular&#8217; metaverse. Local media <a href=\"https:\/\/m.moneys.mt.co.kr\/article.html?no=2022091113302841318#_enliple\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the defendant registered on one of Korea&#8217;s VR platforms. From December 2021 to March 2022, he communicated with junior and senior high school students through his avatar.<\/p>\n<p>The man gave minors gifts, in exchange for which he asked them to send nude photographs. His computer also contained sexually explicit messages.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant pleaded guilty. The court noted that the sexual materials were not distributed and were not used for profit.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison term, the defendant will undergo an 80-hour compulsory treatment programme for sexual deviance and will be barred for seven years from holding positions in organisations that work with children.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Australian Federal Police, together with Monash University, began training <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/in-australia-artificial-intelligence-will-be-trained-to-recognise-child-abuse-in-photographs\">artificial intelligence to recognise violence<\/a> against children.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old South Korean resident was sentenced to four years&#8217; imprisonment for sexually harassing minors in an unnamed &#8216;popular&#8217; metaverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1353,1985,974,1361],"class_list":["post-67019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-metaverses","tag-sex","tag-south-korea","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67021,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019\/revisions\/67021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}