Jeong Myeong-seok / JMS: Supreme Court affirms 17-year sentence
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
founder and religious leader
Organization
Christian Gospel Mission (JMS)
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The cited record identifies religious indoctrination, messianic authority, and grooming as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is founder and religious leader.
- Prophecy or divine command
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2025-01-09 · final appeal
Supreme Court of Korea. Seventeen-year sentence affirmed.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- religious indoctrination
- messianic authority
- grooming
Cited record
Sources
- court appellate disposition Supreme Court of Korea, case notice concerning Jeong Myeong-seok (Jan. 9, 2025).
The Supreme Court notice affirms the 17-year sentence and addresses how the victims’ ability to resist was impaired by sustained religious indoctrination and the defendant’s claimed spiritual status.
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- https://www.scourt.go.kr/portal/news/NewsViewAction.work?gubun=2&pageIndex=1&searchOption=&searchWord=&seqnum=5592 Corpus classification: court; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition. SHA-256 472f252d44f5e0a54ff68d176733064d32efaff706d9c9cf326ea3a2b814c717
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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