Parents investigated for beating teenage daughter

Surveillance camera footage shows two parents and a daughter, who kneels down in front of her mother. Screen captured from SBS' YouTube account

By Kim Se-jeong

Police are investigating an alleged child abuse case by two parents and their son against their daughter.

According to the police and local news outlets, the alleged physical abuse took place on a street in Gangnam District, southern Seoul, around midnight on May 15. Surveillance camera recordings showed the teenage girl running away barefoot on the street outside of an apartment building and the father pulling her hair and hitting different parts of her body to stop her.

In other footage, the mother kicks the daughter and hits her head until the daughter kneels down. The girl's older brother also took part in the assault.

Police immediately separated the family from the daughter and ordered the parents and the son to stay away from her. On May 19, a local court ordered the father to be detained for being a potential danger to his daughter according to the law. The mother and son were not detained.

The daughter was taken to a different location for her own protection.

The parents told the police that they used violence to stop the daughter who was refusing to receive medical treatment. It is unknown what kind of medical treatment they were seeking for their daughter.

Surveillance footage shows a mother pushing her daughter in an alleged case of abuse. Screen captured from SBS' YouTube account