By Kim Bo-eun
Police arrested a sex offender wearing an electronic anklet on charges of murder, Tuesday.
According to investigators, the 42-year-old ex-convict, surnamed Seo, attempted to rape a housewife in his neighborhood and killed her Monday.
It is alleged that Seo entered the woman’s home in western Seoul which was left unlocked after she went outside to see her two children off to kindergarten.
He threatened the woman, trying to rape her but stabbed her in the neck when she resisted, police said.
The police arrested Seo on the spot because a neighbor had called the police after hearing screaming. The woman was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but died around noon.
“There are limitations to the system of electronic anklets in preventing crimes because they can trace movements but cannot report what the ex-convicts are up to,” said a police official.
Seo previously served a 7-and-a-half-year sentence for breaking into a woman’s house and raping her in 2004. He was released last October, despite being convicted of a total of 12 charges, including three instances of rape.
Although Seo was wearing an electronic anklet, he was not under supervision. His personal information had not been disclosed because he had committed the first rape before the system revealing the personal details of sex criminals was introduced.