Teens caught force filming naked videos

Gyeonggi’s Gimpo Police Precinct arrested six teenagers on Tuesday on charges of circulating video clips of naked young school girls on the Internet. Three other youngsters were booked on the same charges.

The adolescents, seven male and two female, are accused of forcing two teenage girls to take their clothes off and filming them naked. The suspects allegedly threatened to upload the videos to the Web if the girls tried to run away or refused to participate in prostitution. They were not forced to sell sex, however.

Last month, the suspects lured two runaway teenagers, surnamed Lee and Ahn, both 16, to a motel by offering them a place to sleep via the Internet. They then locked the victims in.

On Feb. 20, a week after they were first drawn in, police used an Internet tracking system to locate Lee and Ahn at a PC room in downtown Seoul. The female suspect who had taken them there fled from the scene.

All nine suspects were captured on March 9. They are accused of committing the same crime on a 14-year-old middle school girl, identified only by the surname Paik, in October last year. Paik was held captive for two months, sexually assaulted and forced to prostitute herself 60 times.

The suspects, who first met through the Web, are mostly runaways described as juvenile delinquent.

By E Choong-hyeong JoongAng Ilbo [smartpower@joongang.co.kr]