A 61-year-old man, a well-known elder portrayed by the media as a social activist helping children from poor families, was found to have sexually abused half a dozen minors over the past two decades, police said Monday.
The man named Kim was arrested for sexually assaulting minors after luring them to his house.
In 1991, Kim, an elder of a church in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province, took a 15-year-old boy, who is now 35, to his home, undressed him and touched his body. Kim is suspected of sexually abusing seven minors over the past 21 years.