Bullies, caught, camera

If you're going to go around beating up kids, maybe you shouldn't spread around videos of it.

On the 2nd the cyber investigations division of the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency booked without detention three high school students on charges of distributing the "꼬마 폭행" video on the internet three years ago. The video depicts a child being kicked and knocked to the ground.

According to police, 19-year-old high school Senior 'A 'and two others were in a playground near 'A''s home in Songpa-gu, Seoul, in July or August of 2006 when they decided to play rock, paper, scissors to decide which of them would use the "low kick", a move from mixed martials arts, which was popular at the time.

Based on that game, 'A' followed the child victim (believed to have been seven or eight years old) and kicked and knocked him to the ground with his right foot.

Also there were 'B' and 'C', who filmed the scene with a cellphone camera and sent it via text message to their friend 'D' (currently a 19-year-old high school senior), who uploaded it to the website Mgoon on September 4 of this year.

Police announced, 'A' and the others said, "we just wanted to copy mixed martial arts and attack a kid to watch the video with our friends, we had no idea it would become a big social issue like this. We are sorry for what we did to the child."

Police said, "Because we have not confirmed the identity of the child victim, and the attackers, 'A' and his friends, and 'D', who spread the video, have expressed remorse, they were booked without detention in the interests of justice."