Recently, the Shenyang Dadong District People's Court concluded the trial of a case of organizing minors to carry out activities that violated the administration of public security. This case is the first case in Shenyang in which minors were organized to engage in paid KTV escorts.
In order to increase the operating income, the mind is crooked
Defendants Zhang X and Yue X (both pseudonyms) are husband and wife, and jointly run a commercial KTV in Shenyang, Zhang X is responsible for the operation, Yue X is responsible for finance, and Defendant Zeng X is a public relations manager.
In order to increase their operating income, the three of them had a crooked mind and recruited, organized, and managed escort girls, including more than 10 minors, from February 2022 to January 2023, to provide paid escort services to customers in KTV.
As of the time of the case, Zhang and Yue had made illegal profits of more than 20 yuan from operating KTV.
All three were sentenced
After trial, the court found that defendants Zhang, Yue, and Zeng organized a number of underage women to engage in paid escort activities, and their conduct violated article 262 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, constituting the crime of organizing minors to carry out activities that violated the administration of public security, of which Zhang's conduct violated the crime of extortion under article 266 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, and was punished concurrently for several crimes.
The three defendants were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from three years and six months to eight months and fined.
The judge reminded that the widespread use of the Internet and smartphones has made it easier for minors to be exposed to bad information, and in the face of a large amount of information, minors' judgment and legal awareness are relatively weak, making it difficult to identify the pitfalls and ignore the legal consequences of their actions. As a vulnerable group in society, minors need more attention and protection, and the judicial protection of their rights and interests is a social systems project, and the family is a harbor for minors, and guardianship duties should be performed in accordance with law, actively helping minors buckle the "first button" in life, and strengthening positive guidance for children. Minors should also establish correct values, enhance their awareness of self-prevention, resolutely resist bad behavior, and do not covet temporary profits and become a tool of criminals and regret it.
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