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"So, what recent events have distraught you?"

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"So, what recent events have distraught you?"

I was watching a TV screen in the cafeteria with hundreds of other inmates and guards. I knew Seonghwa was sitting on one end of the table with a notepad out, ready to take notes. However, the camera was faced on the opposite side of the white brick room, capturing a boy with a blurred face. He wore an orange jumpsuit, with his nametag heavily blurred and a stance of shame. 

He let out a trembling sigh, "I-I was touched in the wrong places."

His voice was altered slightly, just enough to hear the distress in his broken whimpers.

"By who?"

"B-By a man from Telegram."

The screen changes to another blurred victim.

"Telegram is an underground gang that is in charge of filming and distributing porn videos 

The questions Seonghwa prepared for this questionnaire were not too specific to trigger the victims but broad enough for the target audience to understand the severity of the situation. Naturally, the questions he asked would also lead to specific occasions the victims could tell which would effortlessly reveal how traumatizing the situation was. 

"Was there anything else that he did?"

"We were in the bathroom. So I thought no one would see. And no was there anyways. But then I realized that they had recorded me."

Even though his face was blurred, one could sense that he was on the brink of tears.

"There was a camera that he placed on purpose. It was placed specifically to only show my body. And soon, everyone in my cell had watched it. Uh, I was severely bullied and still am now."

Then the scene changed to reveal another cellmate with a shaved head, he had his head slightly down as if he was the one committing the crime.

"I lost my friends, I was isolated from everyone else. They all treated me like I had a disease...I began to have nightmares...I became paranoid. I started using drugs to help alleviate the pain. I stopped showering, I had to have my clothes on at all times."

"It's been a month but my body still feels disgusting..."

The cameras cut into a black screen for the viewers to absorb the strong emotional message. Jongho said that he saw Seonghwa consulting the kid and said that the kid starting have a panic attack. I heard he was sent to a psychiatric ward. 

The scene slowly fizzled into the final interviewee, who was the only one who didn't have their face blurred. His white name tag was also a full-on display. There was a collective gasp among the crowd and murmurs among inmates. 

It was no other than our very Kang Yeosang. 

"Hello, my name is Kang Yeosang, and I'm here to tell my story about Telegram."

𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐙)Where stories live. Discover now