NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
By Lincoln Tan
Monday Sep 16, 2013
The woman at the centre of a sexual misconduct complaint against a Korean Presbyterian pastor is standing by her claims and is backing a church investigation which found him guilty after a criminal court cleared him of any wrongdoing.
David Ock-Youn Jang, a senior pastor of the Korean Presbyterian Church of Auckland, stood trial in 2007 on four counts of indecent assault, five counts of rape and one count of assault with intent to commit sexual violation, but was found not guilty on all charges.
However, the church’s complaints hearing committee conducted its own investigation and upheld a number of charges of sexual impropriety and physical, verbal and emotional abuse, and deposed Mr Jang as a minister of the church.
“What I have spoken is the truth, but I have been labelled mentally unstable, a prostitute, a demon and all sorts of other names by some church members who don’t know anything about the matter,” said the complainant.
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