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...Iljin gangs are typically part extortion ring and part social club, according to Jong, who interviewed more than 200 teens over five years to prepare his independent study of the phenomenon. Senior gang members use younger iljin to intimidate still younger children into giving them money to finance dates and rowdy, beer-fueled parties. Jong, who teaches at Jeon Nong high school in Seoul, says gang members use the Internet to organize regional and even national networks. One favorite pastime: the so-called "fainting game," in which kids derive an oxygen-deprivation rush from strangling each other until they nearly...
...high school high jinks can be far more menacing. Iljin deal harshly with anybody who betrays the gang or tries to quit, Jong says. Of particular concern to parents is the rise of sexual violence. Prosecutors say the number of rapes committed by high school kids nearly tripled from 2001 to 2003, the last year for which statistics are available. Last week a judge ordered 10 teenagers charged with repeatedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in the southern city of Miryang to stand trial in juvenile court. Most iljin are decent kids in need of guidance, Jong insists...
...Education Ministry plans to set up programs to teach students otherwise, and is looking at ways to improve the exchange of information about problem kids between parents, police and teachers. Meanwhile, police are granting amnesty to gang members who turn themselves in and confess to crimes by April 30?theft of less than $1,000 and beatings from which the victim recovered in less than three weeks will be forgiven. More than 2,500 students have taken advantage of the offer so far. That's a start. But experts are worried that hardened gang members won't be caught, partly...
Prosecutors contended that Io Nachtwey was raped, stabbed to death, and then thrown in the Charles River on Nov. 3, 2001 by the defendants to send a message to her friends, who had refused to join the robbery gang allegedly run by the defendants...
Procopio said that Parker and the Vasquez brothers were the leaders of a gang that had tried to recruit Nachtwey and some of her friends. But, Procopio said, when Nachtwey’s boyfriend, another “Pit kid” named Gene Bamford, and some other recruits refused to carry out orders from the gang leaders, the defendants struck back by raping and killing Nachtwey...