Bizarre sex approaches to women bring jail term
A man’s bizarre sexual advances to women – while he was already on an intensive supervision sentence for sex offending – have sent him to jail for two months.
Yoon Suk Choi’s victims say he is a sick man, whose behaviour was disgusting and perverted and he needs counselling. The unemployed 36-year-old now accepts that his offending was sexually motivated and that means he could qualify to attend the Stop rehabilitation programme.
But he has no suitable address for home detention and he has been living at the City Mission. Defence counsel Paul Johnson told the judge at Choi’s Christchurch District Court sentencing that his client had now stopped using alcohol and was not gambling any more.
He accepted that the judge’s only options were community work or imprisonment.
Choi was arrested after a series of incidents where a woman saw him masturbating in the women’s public toilets next to the New Brighton Pier, then asking a woman for a “handjob” at the women’s toilet at Waimairi Beach, and asking two other women for their underwear.
He told the police later that he had done it because he was lonely and looking for a woman “to hopefully have sex with”.
He pleaded guilty in October to a charge of obscene exposure and three charges of offensive language and behaviour.
Judge Garland noted that Choi was serving a sentence of community work and intensive supervision at the time of this offending. Those sentences had been imposed for sexual offending.
Judge Garland told him: “I am of the view that a short term of imprisonment is the only proper sentence available to me.”
He imposed the two-month jail term with no release conditions.
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