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=== Incheon High School Girl Death Incident === A high school girl was killed due to abuse by Eun-sook Park, the director of the Gracias Choir affiliated with the Good News Mission. The girl was sent to the church by her mother after being persuaded by the choirโs offer to take care of her mental health treatment. The girl endured severe mistreatment, including being deprived of sleep, confinement, and being monitored by church members. Over a period of five days, the girl was forced to transcribe the Bible and repeatedly climb stairs for an hour, leading to severe physical deterioration. She eventually lost control of her bodily functions and was unable to eat. After losing consciousness, she died four hours later.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kim|first=Jung Soo|title=๊ธฐ์์์์ธ์ฒ๊ตํ ์ฌ๋ง ์ฌ๊ณ ์, 5์ผ ์ ๋ชป ์๋ ๋ฑ ๊ฐํนํ์ ๋นํด|trans-title=High School Girl from Good News Incheon Church Dies After Enduring Five Days of Sleep Deprivation and Severe Mistreatment|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/news/view.html?section=22&category=1007&no=20019|access-date=27 August 2024|newspaper=Modern Religion Monthly|date=25 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Oh|first=Myung Ok|title=์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์์ธํ ์๊ฐ... '๊ธฐ์์์์ ๊ตํ' ์ ๋๋ค ๋งน์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ฅธ ์ฐธ๊ทน|trans-title=How Could It Be This Cruel... Tragedy Brought by the Blind Faith of 'Good News Mission' Followers|language=ko|url=http://www.churchheresy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1469|access-date=19 September 2024|newspaper=Church and Truth|date=13 September 2024}}</ref> Eun-sook Park, director of the Gracias Choir and daughter of Pastor Ock Soo Park, denied any involvement in or connection to the events leading to the death of the high school student.<ref>{{cite news|last=Park|first=In Jae|title="์ฌ๊ณ ์ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ง ๊ณผ์ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ๊ทธ๋ผ์์์ค ํฉ์ฐฝ๋จ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ์ง์ ์๋ค" ์ฃผ์ฅ|trans-title="No Involvement or Directives from Gracias Choir Director Eunsook Park in High School Student's Death," Claims Assert|url=http://m.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20492|access-date=5 September 2024|newspaper=Amen News|date=4 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Park|first=In Jae|title=๋ฐ์ฅ์ ๋ธ ๋ฐ์์ ๊ทธ๋ผ์์์คํฉ์ฐฝ๋จ ๋จ์ฅ, "์จ์ง ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค"|trans-title=Park Ok-soo's daughter, Park Eun-sook, the director of the Gracias Choir, says, "I don't know much about the circumstances surrounding the abuse of the high school girl who died."|language=ko|url=http://m.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20565|access-date=25 September 2024|newspaper=Amen News|date=24 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Oh|first=Myung Ok|title=ํ์ฐธ ์๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ถ๊ฒ ํ๋ โ์ข ๊ต๋ฒ์ฃโ์ ์์ธ์ฑ... ์ธ์ฒ ๊ตฌ์ํ๊ตํ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฌ๋ง ๊ฑด|trans-title="The Disturbing Cruelty of โReligious Crimesโ That Leave You Speechless... High School Girlโs Death at Incheon Salvation Sect Church"|language=ko|url=http://www.churchheresy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1483|access-date=14 October 2024|newspaper=Church and Heresy|date=12 October 2024}}</ref> At the sentencing hearing held on November 25, 2024, the prosecution sought life imprisonment for Park Eun-sook and 30 years in prison for her accomplices.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Dae Woong|title=๊ฒ์ฐฐ, ์ธ์ฒ ๊ตฌ์ํ๊ตํ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ํ๋์ดํด ํฉ์ฐฝ๋จ์ฅ์ โ๋ฌด๊ธฐ์ง์ญโ ๊ตฌํ|trans-title=Prosecution Seeks Life Imprisonment for Choir Director in Incheon Salvation Sect Church High School Student Abuse and Murder Case|language=ko|url=https://www.christiantoday.co.kr/news/365130|access-date=26 November 2024|newspaper=Christian Today|date=25 November 2024}}</ref> Park Eun-sook and her accomplices were each sentenced to four years and six months in prison at the end of their first trial.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kim|first=Hyun Bin|title=๊ธฐ์์์์ธ์ฒ๊ตํ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฌ๋ง์ฌ๊ฑด, ๋ฐ์์ ๋ฑ 3๋ช ์คํ|trans-title=Good News Incheon Church High School Student Death Case: Park Eun-sook and Two Others Sentenced to Prison Terms|language=ko|url=http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/m/content/view.html?section=22&category=1007&no=20245|access-date=10 December 2024|newspaper=Modern Religion|date=9 December 2024}}</ref> At a second trial in September 2025, Park Eun-sook was sentenced to 25 years in prison for child abuse resulting in death. In January 2026, the [[Supreme Court of Korea]] upheld her conviction from the second trial.<ref>{{cite news |author1=์ด๋๋ผ ๊ธฐ์ |title=์ธ์ฒ ๊ตํ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ์ฌ๋ง, ๋๋ฒ โ์๋ํ๋์ดํดโ ํ์ โฆ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ |url=https://www.incheonilbo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1315876 |access-date=February 21, 2026 |work=incheonilbo.com |date=January 29, 2026 |language=korean |trans-title=The Supreme Court upholds the death of a high school student at an Incheon church as "child abuse and murder," and dismisses the appeal.}}</ref>
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