๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ False Accusations in School Violence Cases ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž ๋ฌด๊ณ (ํ—ˆ์œ„์‹ ๊ณ ) ๋Œ€์‘ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ

Comprehensive guide on handling false or malicious school violence accusations in Korea โ€” including legal definitions, evidence strategy, and defense tips for international families.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ False Accusations in School Violence Cases ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž ๋ฌด๊ณ (ํ—ˆ์œ„์‹ ๊ณ ) ๋Œ€์‘ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ

1. When a False Accusation Happens ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ

Falsely reporting school violence refers to intentionally filing a false report to have another student disciplined for school violence. While general false accusation (perjury/slander) already carries serious penalties, false school violence reports are subject to the same criminal penalties as those defined under the relevant provisions of the Criminal Act.

  • imprisonment for not more than ten years or by a fine not exceeding 15 million won.

Furthermore, the party who was falsely accused and subsequently designated as the school violence perpetrator is also entitled to file a claim for damages. False school violence reports are a serious issue that carries legal accountability far beyond a simple prank.

ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•™์ƒ์„ ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์ง“ ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„๋„ ํ˜•๋ฒŒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ณ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์€๋ฐ์š”, ํ•™ํญ ๋ฌด๊ณ ๋„ ํ˜•๋ฒ•์ƒ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„์˜ ์„ฑ๋ฆฝ ์š”๊ฑด์— ๋งž๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ˜•์‚ฌ ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • 10๋…„ ์ดํ•˜์˜ ์ง•์—ญ ๋˜๋Š” 1์ฒœ500๋งŒ ์› ์ดํ•˜์˜ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ

๋˜ ๊ฑฐ์ง“์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋‹นํ•ด ํ•™ํญ ๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž๊ฐ€ ๋œ ์ธก์—์„œ๋Š” ์†ํ•ด๋ฐฐ์ƒ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•™ํญ ๋ฌด๊ณ ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์žฅ๋‚œ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ฃ .

In the school context, this means:
ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์—์„œ ๋ฌด๊ณ ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • The report is clearly fabricated or exaggerated beyond what occurred (์‚ฌ๊ฑด ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๋ช…๋ฐฑํžˆ ๊ณผ์žฅยท์กฐ์ž‘๋œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ)

  • The student deliberately reverses the roles of victim and perpetrator (ํ”ผํ•ด์žยท๊ฐ€ํ•ด์ž ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ)

  • There is a demonstrable motive for revenge or avoidance of discipline (๋ณด๋ณต ๋˜๋Š” ์ฒ˜๋ฒŒ ํšŒํ”ผ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ)

However, not every inaccurate statement is โ€œfalse reporting.โ€ Sometimes, inconsistencies result from memory gaps, fear, or stress โ€” which means careful verification is essential.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ์ด ๋ฌด๊ณ ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๊ณตํฌ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์™œ๊ณก์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์„ฃ๋ถ€๋ฅธ ๋‹จ์ •์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฌผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. How to Respond Step-by-Step ๋ฌด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์˜์‹ฌ๋  ๋•Œ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„ ๋Œ€์‘

When you believe your child was wrongly accused, do not confront the other party directly. Follow these structured steps instead:

Step 1. Collect Evidence and Context

Gather objective records โ€” messages, videos, attendance logs, and witness statements โ€” that clarify what truly happened.

Step 2. Record Every Official Communication

Keep a log of all contacts with the school or Education Office. If the school seems biased, request written minutes of every meeting.

Step 3. File a Written Statement of Objection

Your lawyer can submit an โ€œObjection to Report Validity (ํ—ˆ์œ„์‹ ๊ณ  ์˜๊ฒฌ์„œ)โ€ to the School Violence Committee. This document should outline inconsistencies, missing evidence, and any prior conflicts.

Step 4. Request Cross-Examination

In serious cases, attorneys can formally request cross-examination or fact verification procedures.

Step 5. Consider Filing a Criminal Complaint

If the false report led to tangible harm, you may pursue a criminal complaint for defamation or false accusation.

์ž๋…€๊ฐ€ ์–ต์šธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋„, ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋Œ€๋ฆฝํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.

Step 1. ์ฆ๊ฑฐํ™•๋ณด

๋จผ์ €, ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ๊ฐ๊ด€์  ์ž๋ฃŒ(๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€, ์˜์ƒ, ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ์ž ์ง„์ˆ , ์ถœ๊ฒฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋“ฑ)๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Step 2. ์ ˆ์ฐจ์ƒ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ ๊ธฐ๋ก

ํ•™๊ตยท๊ต์œก์ฒญ๊ณผ์˜ ์—ฐ๋ฝ ๋‚ด์—ญ์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•ด ๋‘์„ธ์š”. ํ•™๊ต๊ฐ€ ํŽธํ–ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํšŒ์˜๋ก ์—ด๋žŒ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ก ์š”์ฒญ๊ถŒ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

Step 3. ์ง„์ˆ ์„œ ์ œ์ถœ
๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•™ํญ์œ„์— โ€˜ํ—ˆ์œ„์‹ ๊ณ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„œโ€™๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์˜๊ฒฌ์„œ์—๋Š” ์ง„์ˆ  ๋ชจ์ˆœ, ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ๋ถ€์žฌ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ ๋‚ด์—ญ์„ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Step 4. ๋Œ€์งˆ์กฐ์‚ฌ ์š”์ฒญ

ํ•„์š” ์‹œ, ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€์งˆ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์กฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์š”์ฒญํ•ด ์ง„์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Step 5. ๋ช…์˜ˆํ›ผ์† ๋ฐ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„ ๊ณ ์†Œ ๊ฒ€ํ† 

ํ—ˆ์œ„์‹ ๊ณ ๋กœ ์‹ค์งˆ์  ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ช…์˜ˆํ›ผ์† ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„ ๊ณ ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

4. Common Mistakes to Avoid ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๋“ค์ด ์ž์ฃผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ค์ˆ˜

โŒ Publicly confronting the accuser or posting online.

โ†’ This may lead to additional defamation liability.
โ†’ SNS๋‚˜ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ฑ„ํŒ…๋ฐฉ์— ๊ธ€์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋ช…์˜ˆํ›ผ์†์œผ๋กœ ์—ญ๊ณ ์†Œ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โŒ Trying to settle privately without legal review.

โ†’ Early informal settlements can make later defense impossible.
โ†’ ๋น„๊ณต์‹ ํ•ฉ์˜๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ •์‹ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์—์„œ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โŒ Ignoring school notices or refusing attendance.

โ†’ Non-cooperation may be evaluated negatively.
โ†’ ํ•™๊ต ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ๊ต์œก ๋ถˆ์ฐธ์€ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

5. How SUGAR SQUARE Supports False Accusation Cases ํ•™ํญ ๋ฌด๊ณ , ์Šˆ๊ฐ€์Šคํ€˜์–ด์™€ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”

If you have been unjustly accused of school violence despite not being involved, you may be able to file a report for false school violence accusation. Conversely, if you have been accused of making a false report (i.e., named as the accuser who filed falsely), you must work with an expert to clarify the facts and prepare a legal defense. In both scenarios, you need to collect evidence and respond quickly and accurately, which is why we recommend seeking expert assistance.

The Sugar Square Law&Advisors School Violence Center provides clear solutions based on extensive on-site experience and practical know-how. Our attorneysโ€”who have served as 'Our School' Lawyers in Seoul, as well as School Violence Disciplinary Committee Members and Chairpersons for the Seoul Gangnam/Seocho and Gyeonggi-do Gwangju/Hanam Offices of Educationโ€”will firmly protect your child's future.

ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ์— ๊ฐ€๋‹ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Œ์—๋„ ์–ต์šธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•™ํญ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„๋กœ ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•™ํญ ๋ฌด๊ณ ์ฃ„๋กœ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด(ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์‹ ๊ณ ์ž๋กœ ์ง€๋ชฉ๋๋‹ค๋ฉด) ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐํžˆ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์  ๋ฐฉ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ชจ๋‘, ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ถŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ฒ•์ธ ์Šˆ๊ฐ€์Šคํ€˜์–ด ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ์ „๋‹ด์„ผํ„ฐ๋Š” ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ํ˜„์žฅ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋กœ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ์šธ์‹œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌํ•™๊ต ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ, ์„œ์šธ๊ฐ•๋‚จ์„œ์ดˆ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ด‘์ฃผํ•˜๋‚จ ๊ต์œก์ง€์›์ฒญ์˜ ํ•™๊ตํญ๋ ฅ๋Œ€์ฑ… ์‹ฌ์˜์œ„์›, ์‹ฌ์˜์œ„์›์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋“ ๋“ ํžˆ ์ง€์ผœ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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