{"id":145430,"date":"2025-07-18T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=145430"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:20:34","slug":"former-ncts-taeil-has-appealed-his-prison-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/former-ncts-taeil-has-appealed-his-prison-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCT\u2019s Taeil has appealed his prison sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <strong>NCT<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Taeil<\/strong> has been in the eye of the hurricane since he was accused of aggravated quasi-rape of a foreign teenager. Ultimately, the idol was sentenced to prison after his first trial. The former idol\u2019s legal team immediately found a way to appeal the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>On July 16,<strong> Taeil\u2019s legal team submitted their appeal, a day after the prosecution also appealed the ruling<\/strong>. The two parties, who will contest the case, are expected to have a heated legal battle in the appellate court in the upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment.jpg\" alt=\"The idol is appealing after reaching a settlement with the victim\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/He-voluntarily-submitted-a-statement-to-the-police-and-despite-difficulties-he-reached-a-settlement-with-the-Chinese-victim-who-also-submitted-a-statement-of-non-punishment-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first, Taeil and his two co-defendants admitted to all charges during the first trial, but the<strong> former idol\u2019s legal team appealed for leniency<\/strong>. The legal team is highlighting the Chinese victim, and Taeil has settled.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>He voluntarily submitted a statement to the police, and despite <strong>difficulties<\/strong>, he reached a settlement with the Chinese victim, <strong>who also submitted a statement of non-punishment<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NCT\u2019s Taeil has been in the eye of the hurricane since he was accused of aggravated quasi-rape of a foreign teenager. Ultimately, the idol was sentenced to prison after his first trial. The former idol\u2019s legal team immediately found a way to appeal the sentence. On July 16, Taeil\u2019s legal team submitted their appeal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":145431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[938],"class_list":{"0":"post-145430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-nct"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}