Korean American tutor charged with molesting four girls in La Palma

A 38-year-old Korean American man was charged on October 9 with sexual assaulting four girls in La Palma, Orange County.

Kim faces multiple charges, including two counts of lewd acts on a child aged 14 or 15, both of which are felonies.

Additionally, he is charged with annoying or molesting an underage child, touching an intimate part of another person, and attempted touching of an intimate part of another, all of which are misdemeanors.

Kim, who was taken into custody on October 5, is currently being held on $200,000 bail, as per jail records. According to these records, he listed his occupation as a tutor.

Further details regarding the case were not immediately available.

BY SUAH JANG [jang.suah@koreadaily.com]