K-pop idol Taeil sentenced to 3½ years for rape


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Prosecutors in June had sought a seven-year jail sentence for Taeil. Photo: Taeil/Instagram

Moon Tae-il, also known as Taeil and a former member of K-pop boy band NCT, was sentenced on July 10 to three years and six months in prison for raping an intoxicated woman, in a case that involved two accomplices.

The Seoul Central District Court found Moon, 31, guilty of special quasi-rape under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes.

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