South Korean General Arrested For Sex Crime: Official
07/06/21 AT 1:14 AM
A South Korean two-star army general has been arrested for sexually harassing a female subordinate, officials said Tuesday, in the latest high-profile sex crime to rock the country's military.
The case comes just a month after the country's air force chief resigned over the suicide of a master sergeant who was sexually assaulted by a colleague.
She reported the case higher up the chain of command, only to have her complaints ignored, and took her own life in May.
That sparked a national outcry in South Korea, which maintains a conscript army to defend itself against the nuclear-armed North.