My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 241

“So, it has to be someone who wouldn’t make the family feel something is off. Someone who generally doesn’t seem threatening.”

“But who could that be?”

Even though we talk about neighborhood ties, that’s a thing of the past. We don’t even know who lives next door anymore.

“Ah……”

At that moment, Kim Jung-sook opened her mouth as if she had thought of something, but soon shook her head without realizing it.

“What is it?”

“Well, there’s a kid I’ve bumped into a few times when opening the door.”

“A kid?”

“Yes, a child who lives upstairs. But there’s no reason for that child to kill our baby.”

However, Park Do-joon’s face hardened at those words. It was a perfect match for the profile. A position that can induce carelessness in adults and at the same time be in a position that no one can suspect. That’s exactly what a child is.

“Who is it?”

“It can’t be that child.”

“There are more violent crimes committed by children than you think. There are juvenile offenders, too.”

Kang Soo-won also persuaded Kim Jung-sook to get an answer, just in case, but soon his expression lost all energy.

“He’s only eight years old.”

“Yes?”

“He’s eight years old this year.”

“Just… eight years old?”

“Yes.”

Eight years old. A child who just became a first grader in elementary school. Such a child kidnapped and murdered an infant? Everyone seemed to think it was absurd, and they understood why Kim Jung-sook wasn’t suspicious.

Only Park Do-joon asked back with a serious face.

“So, are you sure the child knows the password?”

“Yes?”

“Are you sure… no, do you think there’s a possibility he knows it?”

“Yes, I think it’s possible. We’ve run into each other a few times.”

Kim Jung-sook also said that she had encountered the child sitting on the stairs at the entrance a few times, and Park Ho-yeon and Park Ki-soo had also said that.

“Hmm……”

“Sunbae [senior colleague or mentor], you don’t think a kid would do that, would you?”

Park Do-joon frowned slightly at Jung Yi-yeon’s words.

“Yi-yeon, do you know how old the youngest murderer was?”

“Yes? Uh? I don’t know? Thirteen years old?”

“Three years old.”

“Yes?”

“What did you say?”

Kang Soo-won, and even profiler Lee Ji-soo, were so surprised by those words that their eyes widened.

“Sunbaenim [term of respect for a senior colleague], is that true?”

“Yes, it’s not widely known because it’s such a unique case. Of course, it wasn’t a murder they wanted to commit.”

The terrorist organization IS [Islamic State] in Iraq put a gun in the hand of a three-year-old child and pulled the trigger, so it wasn’t a murder the child wanted to commit.

“That’s ridiculous. The kid didn’t even want to do it.”

“Then, do you know how old the youngest murderer with a proven motive is?”

“How old is he?”

“Six years old.”

At those words, everyone’s eyes wavered.

Just six years old. A child who should be smiling and running around while looking at his mom and dad is a murderer…….

“He brought a gun from home because he was angry and shot his neighbor’s friend. The police passed it off as manslaughter.”

There’s no other way. If he’s really six years old, you can’t see that he had the intention to kill. He only has the concept of kids bickering when they’re angry, and he has no idea how dangerous a gun is.

“That’s also manslaughter, so……”

“Then, how old is the youngest serial killer?”

“That’s……”

“Eight years old.”

Park Do-joon tells the people who can’t answer.

Everyone was shocked by the unexpected answer and couldn’t speak.

“An eight-year-old child beat three infants to death, including his own younger sibling. The psychiatrist diagnosed the child with sadism.”

“Sadist?”

“Yes, a sadist who learned the pleasure of killing before social ethics or concepts were established.”

And now, the child upstairs is eight years old.

“It’s a possible story.”

Of course, the child probably had a stronger feeling of playing with them like toys than killing them.

“No way……!”

“In the world of profiling, the word ‘no way’ usually turns out to be true.”

Kim Jung-sook’s eyes were full of confusion as she listened to those words. It couldn’t be helped, because she also liked the child and often gave him candy or snacks.

“But he’s a child……”

“It’s not impossible. Children’s psychological tests are hardly ever done.”

Children don’t get psychological tests. Even if they don’t listen well, they just say that’s how they are at that age and move on.

Even doctors don’t recommend conducting psychological tests on children to prevent social stigma.

Therefore, unless it’s a really special case, there’s no way to know if a child is a psychopath, a sociopath, or a sadist.

“The problem is that the age at which these mental disorders manifest… is often earlier than you think.”

They commit extreme crimes and act extremely before they are diagnosed and start treatment.

Even if they are psychopaths, sociopaths, or sadists, they can be made to live in society with proper education and treatment.

They cannot be made to empathize socially, but they can be made to understand what actions are not socially acceptable by imprinting information on them.

But if they can’t do that or miss that timing… then it turns into a serious crime.

“This is also why many criminologists take school violence so seriously.”

From a criminological point of view, school violence is not simply a matter of ‘kids fighting each other.’ Kids fighting means they are punching each other, but it is not an act of a group or individual thoroughly abusing, extorting, and torturing a vulnerable target for a long period of time.

And many of the children who do that are psychologically classified as having so-called behavioral problems.

‘Come to think of it, it was like that before the regression.’

Before the regression, Park Do-joon and many other profilers argued that psychological tests should be conducted on the perpetrators of serious incidents among the many school violence cases that occurred in schools.

However, due to the Ministry of Education’s excuse that there was no budget and the claims of some human rights activists that they were trying to stigmatize children, they were treated leniently because they were children without such tests or supplements and went out into society… and later grew up and committed all sorts of crimes such as rape, robbery, and murder.

Park Do-joon was very angry when he saw the situation where a problem that could have been prevented with 1 million won [approximately $750 USD] could not be solved even with hundreds of millions of won.

“Eight years old is young, but that doesn’t mean murder is impossible.”

An eight-year-old can take care of an eight-month-old infant.

And because they are short, they can move below the line of sight of adults. If people’s attention is focused on one side, as in this case, the child can naturally avoid people’s attention and go outside.

“That……!”

Everyone had shocked faces. However, Lee Ji-soo, who soon came to her senses, questioned Park Do-joon’s words.

“I’m sorry, Sunbaenim [term of respect for a senior colleague], but even so, there’s something that doesn’t make sense. If a child is acting strangely, even if they don’t get psychological treatment or go to a mental hospital, their parents will try to control them, right?”

“That’s right.”

If a child shows abnormal signs, the child’s parents will naturally try to control them.

In fact, the reason why many psychopaths and mentally ill people do not commit such murders or tortures in their childhood is because of the strong control and education of their parents that such actions are bad.

No matter how mentally unstable a child is, the bond with their parents that they formed in childhood is strong enough to overcome that instability.

“Yes, that’s usually the case. But there are special cases where that education is not done at all.”

“Special cases?”

“Yes, I told you earlier? The story of the youngest serial killer.”

“Yes.”

“That’s such a special case.”

The perpetrator was born as a child in a very poor Indian slum. Naturally, the parents completely neglected the child in order to earn money, and the child’s home education was not done at all.

Therefore, the child did not recognize that killing or torturing the weak was bad in itself.

“In China, there were two arguments: the theory of human evil and the theory of human goodness. But in my opinion, both are correct.”

Some are good and some are evil. Children sometimes beat animals to death without thinking, and sometimes they see a stranger in pain and go to comfort them.

Sometimes, good and evil are already distinguished at the stage of birth.

“Depending on who lives upstairs, they may not provide children with even the minimum concept of good and evil if they are not proper adults.”

At those words, Kim Jung-sook stammered.

“The people who live upstairs… are, Chinese.”

“Chinese?”

“Yes?”

“Ugh……”

At those words, Park Do-joon grabbed his head.

“Why, Sunbae [senior colleague or mentor]? Is that a problem?”

“It is. Why do you think China has a bad image worldwide? Because the core of Chinese home education is survival.”

“Survival?”

“Yes, survival.”

China is not a good country to live in. In fact, it is a country where extreme wealth and poverty prevail and where the Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship is in place.

“China has gone through a long and bleak history.”

The Cultural Revolution, the Great Famine, corrupt governments, etc… In that situation, the greatest value China has is survival.

It is China’s security situation that you will be dragged away and tortured if you help others, and it is China’s spirit to say that the person who was deceived is more stupid than the person who deceived them.

It is a common fact that Chinese people openly say that it is okay to make money no matter what they do.

“The home education that takes place in such a place is obvious.”

“Ah……”

Of course, Korea too… no, every country in the world had such times. However, when a country develops, most countries try to prevent such education and enlighten their people in any way possible.

In fact, due to such effects, many of the bad practices that existed in Korea in the past have disappeared and are disappearing.

“But China doesn’t like that.”

Because if the people are enlightened, they will recognize freedom, and if they recognize freedom, China will be in danger.

“A certain politician said that? The night’s day, the family’s devastation, ramen’s staple food, holidays’ weekdays. Why would they do that?”

It’s ridiculous, but the picture politicians want is for the whole nation to suffer and fall into ruin in that way. Because the more the people are preoccupied with making a living, the more stupid the people become.

“If the people who live upstairs are Chinese, there is a possibility that they will educate based on such ideology. The child’s abnormal behavior? It’s not strange to base it on such survivability.”

It’s not just not strange, it’s not an exaggeration to say it’s genius.

Everyone was silent at those words.

“Then what should we do, Sunbaenim [term of respect for a senior colleague]?”

“We have to call them first.”

Children act without knowing.

Therefore, they surprisingly don’t lie. Lying is a highly intelligent behavior. Lying is an act that a child cannot do unless they grow up to a certain extent and their intelligence increases.

“We’ll know if we ask.”