An 80-year-old woman has been sentenced to a suspended prison term and probation for attacking a couple next door, claiming they took soil from her field without permission.

“Who told them to take the soil without asking?”

“Who told them to take the soil without asking?”

“Who told them to take the soil without asking?”

On November 11, Judge Kim Hyun-jun of the Chuncheon District Court's Wonju branch sentenced the elderly woman, referred to as A, to six months in prison, suspended for two years, after she was charged with special assault, special residential invasion, and injury.

A is accused of hitting her neighbor, a man in his 70s referred to as B, on the buttocks with a wooden stick measuring 88cm in length, believing that B had taken soil from her field without her consent on June 18 of last year around 4:30 PM.

At that time, A allegedly shouted “Come out!” and forcibly entered B's house. When B attempted to intervene and stop A from entering a room where his physically impaired husband was, he was repeatedly punched in the head.

A is also accused of grabbing B’s hair and dragging him outside, causing injuries that required approximately 14 days of treatment.

Furthermore, A is charged with attacking B’s husband, who was trying to come out of the room due to the commotion in the living room, hitting him in the mouth and eye, which also required 14 days of treatment.

The court stated, “The defendant inflicted severe violence on the victims for trivial reasons and showed poor conduct by denying the offense and not apologizing, making the nature of the crime undesirable and the circumstances after the crime unfavorable.”

The judge concluded, “However, considering the defendant’s advanced age, the lack of prior criminal records, and the concerns of the victims’ children about recidivism, we are granting a suspended sentence with probation as a condition.”

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