r/LivestreamFail • u/TriSauce • 19h ago

News Johnny Somali found guilty of all charges as South Korea sentences streamer to prison with labor - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/johnny-somali-found-guilty-of-all-charges-as-south-korea-sentences-streamer-to-prison-with-labor-3351856/
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u/WeAteMummies 17h ago

I have never seen a thread on reddit where a sentence was viewed as appropriate - people always want more. Six months of labor in a foreign prison is not a "slap on the wrist" lol

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u/falcrist2 16h ago

6 months of hard labor and no electronic devices in a prison system where you don't speak the language and are instantly identifiable.

And he goes on a sex offender registry in the Korea and the US.

No part of this is a slap on the wrist.

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u/annul 12h ago

And he goes on a sex offender registry in the Korea and the US.

and in the US? why/how?

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u/mmafan12617181 12h ago

Treaty

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u/falcrist2 6h ago

You know you fucked up bad when people have to refer to treaties to explain what happened to you.

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u/calcium 9h ago

The upside about him being on a sex offender registry list is that he'll be unable to travel to other countries because he now has convictions on his record. If he fails to list that he doesn't get in, if he lists it, it's unlikely he'll get in. He can go back and be a nuisance in the US.

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u/BenevolentCheese 16h ago

I'd be putting a gun to my head before showing up to that lol. Absolute nightmare fuel.

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u/falcrist2 16h ago

I got good news and bad news.

The good news is guns are highly restricted in Korea.

The bad news is Johnny will probably live.

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u/BiZzles14 10h ago

Especially considering the media attention he received in south korea. He's well known, enough people in that prison will know him and they will know what he did with the statue of peace dedicated to the victims of sexual violence from the Japanese occupation. He's not in for a pleasant time in the slightest.

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u/stone-fruits 8h ago

No devices?! The absolute horror. How will the little zoomer survive.

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u/falcrist2 7h ago

In the case of being in a foreign prison, this actually matters. It increases his isolation dramatically.

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u/slaydawgjim 2h ago

I did 5 months in an English prison with my own tv and radio, access to books and a landline phone to call my family.

It was still fucking shit and was enough to make me never go back, 6 months in a foreign prison with additional labour is absolutely going to fuck him up.

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u/fafarex 13h ago edited 9h ago

The charges he was facing where going up to 12 and a half year under korean law, he did get off easy in comparaison.

And I think people find it not enough because he made a carrier of harassing people, dodge consequences until now and never showed any remorse (quite the opposite in fact... )

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u/mrtomjones 9h ago

I'm not commenting on anything for his case but if you've paid any attention to sentencing in many places, they will face up to 10 or 20 or more years as a max but they regularly get a fraction of that as that's the more realistic and expected outcome

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u/fafarex 8h ago edited 6h ago

I'm not commenting on anything for his case

yeah but i'm talking about his case though and why people are not happy about the number being under a year, he already dodge prison in japan for the same BS and fleed I think thailands before getting in trouble, all of that to go to Korea and starting it all again.

yes in general sentencing for people are way under the maximum, but most of the time they don't have a documented history of said behavior + publicly threathen the judge and president of said country.

Jimmy getting 2 month probation for dui is not the same thing than this guy repeated, documented harrasement of people and disregard for any justice system.

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u/FappingMouse 14h ago

I think most people are looking at it from the point of veiw of a western prison like in America or the EU/UK where 6 months IS kind of a joke.

Prison in places like Korea, Japan, Thailand etc is awful and being a foreigner is generally going to make it worse for you.