Mar 24 2020, 10:16 AM, updated 6y ago
Suspect identity
Cho, who used the nickname "baksa," which means "doctor" or "guru" in Korean, is accused of distributing the videos in a group chat room on the messaging service Telegram, where some of up to 10,000 users are suspected of paying Cho to watch the videos.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/202...251_286686.html
Content warning: descriptions of sexual torture, including to minors
When traffickers wished to sexually enslave women and girls before the rise of the Internet and the wide distribution of smartphones, they had to jump through various hoops such as getting women to leave their country and trap them in an actual physical location. This meant the criminals usually needed to provide basic services, like food, water, toilets and medical care to the enslaved women. To top it off, on a daily basis, they had to deal with the selves and actual, physical bodies of the trapped women. Those bodies that get pregnant, bleed every month, or catch sexually transmitted diseases.
This scenario has hardly disappeared, but some traffickers found a way to streamline the process. They know that many men prefer watching pornography to having sex. They also know that men enjoy watching women being violently, sexually abused in porn.
Criminals, as well as run-of-the-mill abusive opportunists have found out how to exploit this situation. Currently, one extremely horrifying example of such exploitation presents itself by the South Korean “Nth room” case. Here, men congregate in virtual “rooms” or groups within the secure messaging Telegram app to view sexual content extracted from girls enslaved online.
According to Korean activists, two young women or girls in South Korea now become “sexual slaves” every day. The number of men viewing their content surpasses 10,000 daily, which makes it a case of online sexual exploitation of an unprecedented scale. Despite its scale, the case has been underreported by major South Korean media, although a petition calling for international investigation got signatures from 200,000 people.
Urgent action must be taken on this issue. The women and young girls enslaved online, the youngest of which was identified as 11 years old, are coerced to perform sexual as well as unusually cruel acts and record them for the viewers’ sexual pleasure.
Some of these acts included cutting off a nipple, having sex with one’s brother, carving of the word “slave” or the pimp’s name with a knife in the skin, putting scissors into the vagina, eating feces, and even getting raped by assigned people. At least one of the victims has already committed suicide.
How it works
In the case of the “Nth Room”, there is little need for the exploiters to ever meet their “slaves” offline. Most sexual content is recorded by the young women and girls themselves, using their own webcams and phones. However, the pimps order the victims the type of content they’re supposed to provide. After the girls and women send the material to the exploiters, they post it in the form of videos or photographs in some of the Telegram app’s private chat rooms.
The exploiters use various tactics to force their victims to perform the desired acts, such as threats with disclosure of their pornographic materials to friends and family. If this particular tactic doesn’t work, they incite Nth Room male viewers to punish the resisting females by raping them. According to the Korean feminist activists, when a “slave” refuses to cooperate, the exploiters publish her identifying information - place of work, where she lives or goes to school - in chat rooms designed specifically for this purpose. Thus, male members of the chat rooms are incited to find the girl, rape her, record the rape and publish it online. These acts serve three goals: they punish the victim, warn other girls not to follow her path, and provide more lucrative pornographic material to sell, as footage of violent rape is expensive.
Men exchange links to the chat rooms in private messages, or in South Korean men’s online forums.
Source:
https://4w.pub/south-korean-nth-room-chats-...sexual-slavery/
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