A 21-year-old man sexually assaulted his 40-year-old mother and killed her afterwards, fearing she would report it to the police, JoongAng Ilbo reported on Saturday.
The man, identified only as Jo, came back home around 2 a.m. on July 22 after drinking two bottles of soju. He approached his mother, who was sleeping at that time. “From a young age, I liked it when my mother hugged me,” he told the police.
Cho sexually assaulted his mother. When she put on her clothes afterwards, he thought she was going outside to report it to the police. He followed her to the bathroom and killed her, by hitting her head with an unspecified weapon, the newspaper said.
He attempted to bury her body in the house courtyard. He turned himself to the police after his younger sister and a friend declined to help him.
Jo initially told the police that he committed the crime “in a fit of anger” when his mother “ignored” him, not saying about the assault.
However, the authorities discovered sperm in the deceased woman’s body. He confessed to the sexual assault.
Jo worked as an assistant at a musical instrument company. His father, a stone mason, died when he was 10. Since his grandmother died last year, he has been living with his mother in the house.
“In my 18-year experience as a police officer, this is the first time that I dealt with a case in which a son sexually assaulted his mother,” a police officer investigating the case lamented.