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New Zealand¡¯s sizeable Korean community is in shock at news that several Korean teenage girls held another girl captive and tortured her, apparently from rivalry over a boy. The weekly Sunday Star-Times reported Sunday that a youth court in Auckland found six Korean girls aged between 15 and 17 guilty of detaining a 16-year-old girl, also Korean, for more than an hour and burning her with cigarettes outside a supermarket in Auckland in February.
According to the newspaper, some of the girls are currently living with one parent and some are living with home-stay families. All girls including the victim had trouble adjusting to their new environment, a spokesman for the Korean community told the paper.
¡°The girls will attend a family group conference to redress the harm done to their victim. They will reappear for sentencing in the youth court in June,¡± the weekly added.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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