Something like a mystery novel happened. Last month, a 3-year-old girl was found in an empty house in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, long after her death. However, it turns out that the child’s real mother is a woman in her 40s known as her maternal grandmother. The maternal grandmother is suspected of having changed her baby after giving birth at the same time as her daughter in her twenties.
This is TBC reporter Han Hyeon-ho.
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On the 10th of last month, a 3-year-old girl was found dead in a villa in Gumi.
Initially, the police sent the 22-year-old Mr. A to the prosecution on suspicion of murder because of the mother’s abuse.
However, as a result of DNA analysis, it was confirmed that the mother of the deceased child was not Mr. A, but Mr. B, the maternal grandmother.
When the parent-child relationship with Mr. A was not established, the police, who considered it strange, expanded the scope of the genetic test to find out.
Mr. B lived downstairs to Mr. A, and was the first to find and report a dead child.
Mr. B denied the results of the DNA analysis during a warrant substantive examination for alleged abandonment and abandonment of minors.
[숨진 아이 실제 친모 : (DNA 결과가 잘못됐다고 생각하세요?) 네. (본인 아이가 아닌가요?) 아닙니다. (그럼 본인이 낳은 딸은 어디 있어요?) 저는 딸을 낳은 적이 없어요.]
However, police believe that Mr. B replaced his daughter with a granddaughter after giving birth at the same time as his daughter.
If you put together the police investigation, in addition to the child who died, there was another child who was born at the same time.
The police are looking for the missing child.
[구미경찰서 관계자 : 외할머니가 출산한 건 DNA 결과로 나온 것 아닙니까. 사라진 아기가 어떤 상황에 있는지 대해서 저희가 가장 관심을 가지고 신경을 써야 할 부분이라고 생각합니다.]
A’s ex-husband has been reported to insist that the child has not changed from the beginning, as he raised the child himself for 1 year and 6 months, from childbirth to divorce.