Jung Joon-young

On March 11, 2019, it was alleged that in 2015 and 2016, Jung had secretly filmed his own sexual encounters with at least 10 women, then shared the videos with friends in chat groups. The allegations surfaced during a police investigation into Seungri for allegedly providing prostitution services, and resulted in Jung being investigated as well.^[1][2][3][4] The following day, Jung retired from the entertainment industry, admitting to crimes that he had "filmed women without their consent and shared it in a chatroom". He apologized to the multiple women he filmed, as well as his fans, and also pledged to cooperate with police.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} On March 21, Jung was arrested over allegations that he illegally shared sexually explicit videos of women taken without their knowledge or consent through a social media chatroom on eleven occasions.^[10][11]

On April 19, 2019, a woman came forward to SBS funE, claiming that five men including Jung had raped her in March 2016 and then shared an audio file and photos of the incident in a group chat.^[12] On May 10, 2019, Jung pleaded guilty to all eleven cases of secretly filming and sharing the videos of himself having sex with women in a chatroom, and he sought to come to legal settlements with the victims. Jung and Choi Jong-hoon were also under investigation for allegedly being involved in the gang rape of a woman in 2016.^[13][14][15]

On November 29, 2019, Jung was sentenced to six years in prison and a mandatory education program on sexual crimes for gang raping drunk unconscious women.^[16][17][18] Jung was additionally convicted of secretly filming himself having sex with other women and sharing the footage without their consent.^[19] On May 12, 2020, Seoul High Court reduced Jung's sentence from six years to five after he submitted documents expressing his regret.^[19] In November 2020, his personal Instagram account was deleted by the social network itself, on the grounds that it has a policy of deactivating accounts of convicted sex offenders.^[20]

On March 19, 2024, Jung was released from a prison in Mokpo, South Jeolla upon completion of his prison sentence.^[21] Upon his release, he was not required to wear an electronic ankle tag or disclose personal information, such as residential address and identifiable photographs in the sex offender registry, as it was being subjected to the judge's discretion in the initial sentencing.^{[22] [23][24]}

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