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A Clay County judge sentenced Dongwook Ko Wednesday to 24 years in Clay County jail for plotting to kill a number of people connected to his 2019 conviction for attacking a girl at an Indiana University summer music camp.

A man who pleaded guilty to attacking a music student in Bloomington in 2021 has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder while in the Clay County jail.

The attorney for Dongwook Ko is asking that his mental evaluations completed for charges in Monroe County also be considered for his more recent charges in Clay County.

Dongwook Ko, 19, appeared briefly before Judge Valeri Haughton, who explained that she was not going to release him before a hearing next week.

A man who pleaded guilty to attacking a 13-year-old girl who was attending an Indiana University violin camp has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly trying to hire his jail cellmate to kill the victim’s parents and a dozen other people.

A man sentenced to house arrest for attacking a 13-year-old girl with a pocketknife in 2019 as she was attending an Indiana University violin camp is now awaiting deportation to South Korea.

Dongwook Ko was sentenced Wednesday to eight years of home detention and two years probation for stabbing a 13-year-old girl at a music camp at IU Jacobs School of Music in 2019.

No sentencing was handed down for Dongwook Ko during a hearing Monday for his stabbing of a 13-year-old during a music camp on IU’s campus in 2019.