Woman in her 40s, suspended sentence for forging and using parking signs in disabled parking spaces

[Busan = Newsis] Reporter Kwon Tae-wan = A woman in her 40s who forged a parking sign in a disabled parking space was sentenced to probation.

According to the legal community on the 5th, Criminal Division 5 (Judge Moon Kyung-hoon) of the Eastern Branch of the Busan District Court sentenced Ms. A (40s, female), who was indicted on charges of forging official documents and using forged official documents, to four months in prison and two years of probation.

The court also ordered Mr. A to perform 80 hours of community service.

According to the criminal facts acknowledged by the first trial, Mr. A is accused of forging an image of a 'disabled parking space parking sign' after downloading it from the Internet in order to park in a disabled parking space at his residence in Busan last year.

Mr. A is also accused of placing a forged handicapped parking space sign at the bottom of the driver's side windshield of his vehicle in the parking lot of a department store in Haeundae-gu, Busan on February 18 of this year.

It is said that a citizen who saw Mr. A's forged parking sign for a disabled parking space filed a complaint.

In this way, if you forge a parking sign in a disabled parking space, you can be severely punished, including imprisonment for up to 7 years or a fine of up to 20 million won.

Kim Dong-jin, a lawyer at Daeryun Law Firm (Limited), explained, "The crime of forging official documents and using forged official documents is severely punished because it is a crime that lowers public trust in society. Unlike in the past, citizens are not putting up with crimes such as using forged official documents as they used to. Courts are also tending to strengthen the level of punishment compared to before."

He added, "In this case, although the duration of the crime was long or the severity of the crime was not serious, the court sentenced the person to probation and punished him severely, which shows that our society is paying a lot of attention to protecting the disabled."

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