Recent electronic tracker damage case raises concerns over sex offender monitoring
While more than 5,000 sexual offenders are set to be released over three years starting next year, concerns are rising over a shortage of dedicated staff for post-release monitoring. The electronic monitoring system meant to prevent repeat crimes is under strain as each staffer’s workload has grown and violations and reoffenses have continued, raising questions about its ability to cope.…
The Korea Times reports rising concerns over the capacity of the electronic sex offender monitoring system as over 5,000 offenders are due for release over the next three years. With each staffer's workload increasing, there have been multiple violations and reoffenses, casting doubt on the system's effectiveness. Notably, Cho Doo-soon, a sexual offender who raped an 8-year-old girl in 2008 and was released in 2020 after serving 12 years, damaged his home monitoring device's external antenna in June last year, believing it was transmitting radio waves into his brain.
Despite the device's cellular signal weakening, a probation officer only discovered the damage six days later.
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