It was not until May 31 - the day a local broadcaster broke the news about Ms. Two air force colonels have been indicted on charges of falsifying the report to keep Ms. But those findings were expunged from the report before it was delivered to the Defense Ministry two days after her death. Lee’s suicide identified her as a sexual assault victim and quoted her parents as saying that she was under duress from superiors demanding that she not press charges against Mr. “She defended her principle through death.” “My daughter chose to die rather than succumb to their coercion,” he said, looking at her photos in a mourning altar set up in a military hospital near Seoul. She began her service in 2017 and thrived until the sexual assault left her dependent on sleeping pills, according to her father.
She wanted to enlist in the air force early on, joining a handful of girls who were accepted into a high school program run by the air force to train young cadets. Lee’s father remembered his daughter as a vivacious and caring woman. Lee Seong-yong, the air force’s chief of staff, has stepped down. The warrant officer has denied all charges against him. The air force senior master sergeant died by suicide in July while in military custody. The military has since arrested both bosses on charges of trying to coerce Ms. “I am not sure I can hold on,” she told her father in a desperate voice message on May 7. Lee eventually asked to be transferred to another unit, where she said she was treated as a troublemaker. Lee’s immediate bosses - an air force senior master sergeant and a warrant officer - discouraged her from taking her case to the military police, and one of the men suggested she act “as if nothing had happened,” according to the investigation. “It’s the military culture that ostracizes the victim of sexual crime, not the predator, that killed my daughter.” “It’s the male-dominant military culture that doesn’t treat female soldiers as colleagues that killed my daughter,” he said in an interview. Lee’s father is making the same enraged appeal. After the captain’s death, her father said he hoped that South Korea would “never again have to see another female soldier die like my daughter.”Įight years later, Ms. “I don’t want to die” were some of her last words, said Kang Suk-min, the family’s former lawyer. The issue attracted national attention in 2013 when an army captain died by suicide after being abused by her boss.
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