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Stalking victim gets protection after reporters question police response

A Daejeon woman describes dismissed evidence and a refused complaint before police provided a safety smartwatch and secured electronic monitoring.

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Late-night surveillance footage shows a man waiting in an elevator and knocking at a woman's door. The woman says she repeatedly sought police help, but protective measures came only after journalists began making inquiries.

South Korea's Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) reports that police in Daejeon delayed investigating her stalking complaints and left her to obtain evidence herself. Messages shown in the report reveal an investigator telling her to ask her building's management for surveillance footage.

The woman recounts asking why police were not investigating after she supplied footage, only to receive no answer. Daejeon Dunsan Police Station told the broadcaster that the man captured on camera looked different from a photograph supplied by the person she had reported.

After a restraining order expired, the man called her again, the report says. Police declined to register another stalking complaint, citing a lack of repeated acts. The woman says she was told officers had been instructed not to accept it because stalking provisions would not apply.

Once media inquiries began, police provided her with a safety smartwatch, and the man was fitted with an electronic monitoring anklet, according to the report. An on-screen court order directs the attachment of a location-tracking device. The woman questions why those protections had not been put in place earlier.

The report also says police initially declined to refer her separate allegations of sexual assault and illegal filming to prosecutors, who subsequently ordered a reinvestigation. Reporter Shin Jun-myeong ends outside the police station with another delay: the man's phone was seized for forensic examination five months after the initial report.

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