According to Hong Kong media reports on December 23, the results of the first trial of the sexual assault case of Fang Lishen's girlfriend Ye Xuan were released, and 78-year-old Zheng Mingxi was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison, requiring him to wear electronic shackles around the clock for 15 years.
According to sources, the South Korean court pronounced a verdict on the case on 22 July, and the judge pointed out that the 78-year-old South Korean cult leader Zheng Mingxi used religious belief to habitually carry out sexual violence against female believers, causing the victim to be confused, and denied the crime throughout the interrogation process, causing serious secondary harm to the victim, and also using the cult forces to obstruct the judicial investigation and use public opinion to attack the victim, and the method was vile.
As early as 2007, Zheng Mingxi was sentenced to 10 years for violating female believers, and after being released from prison in 2017, he made a comeback, and between February 2018 and September 2021, he sexually assaulted female believers many times, with victims all over South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, China and other places.
On March 4, 43-year-old Hong Kong star Fang Lishen suddenly announced a new relationship, his girlfriend is Ye Xuan (Maple Yip), who is 14 years younger than him.
However, netizens soon discovered that Ye Xuan was a victim of the South Korean documentary "In the Name of God: The Betrayal of Faith", which tells the story of the cult leader Zheng Mingxi who committed sexual violence against his followers through brainwashing, and Ye Xuan was interviewed and complained that from 2018 to 2021, she was violated a total of 17 times, and it was not until her ex-boyfriend reminded her that Ye Xuan was lost and realized that she had been brainwashed.
Ye Xuan said in an interview that she was a native of Hong Kong, China, and was brainwashed by cultists on the street because of emptiness and boredom in middle school, and she was responsible for propaganda work in the church, helping the church's propaganda videos as a female anchor, and was promoted to a high-level believer after Zheng Mingxi was released from prison.
Zheng Mingxi's brainwashing methods are very clever, although Ye Xuan did not meet Zheng Mingxi when she joined the club, she still admired him very much, and even rented an apartment close to the prison, facing Zheng Mingxi across the wall, and once sent sexy postcards to Zheng Mingxi, who was in prison.
In 2022, Ye Xuan was interviewed by Korean media with the support of her parents, and at the same time appeared in court to sue Zheng Mingxi for sexual assault, initially asking for a sentence of 30 years, but the court sentenced Zheng Mingxi to 23 years in prison on the 22nd.
If there is no accident, Zheng Mingxi will die in prison.
At present, Fang Lishen has not responded to this matter, he has repeatedly stated that he wants to accompany his girlfriend to South Korea to appear in court, but it has not been realized, for his girlfriend was violated, Fang Lishen is very heartbroken but does not mind, fully supports his girlfriend's rights protection, and also took his girlfriend to see his parents, revealing that his parents are very satisfied, but the two have no plans to get married for the time being.