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Man sentenced for attacking girl at IU violin camp to be deported

Nineteen-year-old Dongwook Ko was taken into custody last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Credit: Monroe County Jail
Dongwook Ko, 19, was sentenced to eight years of house arrest after pleading guilty to attacking a 13-year-old girl in 2019 as she was attending an Indiana University violin camp.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A man sentenced to house arrest for attacking a 13-year-old girl with a pocketknife in 2019 as she was attending an Indiana University violin camp is now awaiting deportation to South Korea. 

Nineteen-year-old Dongwook Ko was taken into custody last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The South Korean resident pleaded guilty in July to criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to eight years of house arrest. 

Ko had pleaded guilty to criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon for the July 2019 incident when he attacked the girl with a pocketknife, leaving her with cuts.

Court documents say on July 12, 2019, the girl was practicing violin at the IU music building when a 17-year-old she knew came into the room. She said Ko told her that her teacher wanted to see her.

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She followed him to the fourth floor of the building where she said he led her into a locker room. Documents say Ko then pinned the girl to the wall and began choking her when she screamed and fought back.

During the struggle, police said Ko used a knife to cut the girl.

According to the documents, a worker who was in the building heard the screams and rushed to help, pulling Ko off the girl.

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The girl then ran to get help, and Ko was able to escape from the employee.

The 13-year-old girl was taken to the hospital and treated for 10 cut wounds to her hands and legs.

 

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