South Korean Ferry Captain Sentenced to 36 Years in Prison
The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank last April, killing 304 people, most of them high school students on a field trip, was sentenced on Tuesday to 36 years in prison for deserting his ship and its passengers in a fatal crisis.
The 69-year-old captain, Lee Jun-seok, “abandoned his passengers, knowing that they were waiting for instructions from the crew and that if they were not evacuated, their lives would be at risk,” said the presiding judge, Lim Joung-youb.
But in his ruling, which capped the five-month trial of 15 crew members of the ferry Sewol, the judge rejected the murder charge against Mr. Lee and the death penalty that prosecutors had sought. Instead, he convicted the captain of failing to take the steps required to save passengers in an emergency.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/world/asia/south-korea-ferry-captain.html?emc=edit_na_20141111
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