Gumi Girls’ Incident, “Reveal of Suspect’s Face” in Limits of Dependence on Confessions

Where is’Daughter’s Daughter’? Is it dead or alive? The’Gumi 3-year-old girl died’, which is more like a close-up than a drama, is falling into a labyrinth without finding the whereabouts of the other girl who disappeared. Seok-mo (48), who appears to have swapped between her real daughter and her granddaughter, is denying the fact of her childbirth, rather than revealing where her daughter is. Previously, the police revealed that the 3-year-old girl was Seok’s daughter through DNA investigation.

Police station, 3-year-old girl’s mother sent on the 17th

According to the Gumi Police Station in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 16th, the police are scheduled to be sent to the prosecution within the 17th as the detention period for Seok (10 days) is about to expire. A police official said, “I will continue to investigate the case for midwives and relatives who may have helped Seok’s childbirth and replacement process, etc.,” he said.

The police detained Kim Mo (22) last month on charges of killing a 3-year-old girl by leaving her alone in an empty house (murder, violation of the Child Welfare Act, etc.).

As a result of the police investigation, Kim left her child at home in August of last year and moved her luggage. Mr. Kim stated, “I didn’t want to see him as my husband’s child.” The dead girl’s body was found by Seok, who lives on the lower floor of the villa, and the report was reported by Seok’s husband.

Following that, the police arrested Seok on the 8th and arrested on the 11th on charges of secretly replacing a girl who gave birth in March 2018 with a child he gave birth at a similar time (children’s medicine, etc.). This is because the result of genetic testing to confirm the child’s exact identity revealed that the girl who died was not the child of Kim, but the child of Suk, who was known as her maternal grandmother.

However, Suk denies the fact of giving birth, rather than changing the child, and the police were in a position to be thrown by the deadline for arrest without being able to draw a confession.

The police conducted extensive investigations on the whereabouts and life and death of Kim’s disappeared daughter, the motive and process of the replacement, and the presence or absence of an accomplice. If you look at the results of the investigation so far, all you have to do is confirm that Kim killed the girl and that she was Seok’s daughter. The reason for the arrest of Mr. Suk, the inducement of medicine, also failed to secure confession and physical evidence. As the replacement period has passed almost three years, and family relations have changed, it seems that the investigation is limited to relying only on Suk’s mouth.

Birth mother denies DNA/lie detector test results

First of all, Suk continues to deny the dead girl despite the results of DNA tests that confirm that the girl who died is Suk’s real daughter. On the morning of the 11th, he denied the fact of giving birth, saying to reporters, “(The dead girl) was a child born by my daughter (B).” In addition, the lie detector test also did not admit it even though a’false’ reaction came out. The lie detector test is rarely recognized as evidence directly in court, but it is a useful technique for determining the direction of the investigation.

However, the police said that the mother and daughter had a daughter at the same time, and it is not known for what reason, but it is certain that Seok had secretly swapped the child with the child Kim had. In March 2018, it was confirmed that Kim gave birth to a girl and even reported the birth at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Gumi. However, there is no record of Suk’s birth.

While Seok’s daughter was doing postpartum care at her home, it is highly likely that she replaced her child, which she had left for a while in another place, and left it to a third party or nursery school or abandoned. It is presumed that there was some form of assistance from someone else in the process.

Police, midwives, etc. are hard to find’daughter of daughter’

Accordingly, the police are investigating whether there is a midwife or midwife who may have helped Suk in giving birth around March 2018. In addition, the case of infant death and disappearance in the past three years is being reconfirmed. At the same time, they are investigating whether there is a child similar to Kim’s daughter in Gumi City and nearby childcare facilities.

This incident is a series of things that cannot be understood by common sense. △I gave birth at a young age and remarried during parenting and left a child less than three years old with my ex husband. △The fact that the decisively deceased child was the daughter of the’maternal grandmother’, not the daughter of the daughter, and △the fact that the husband living with him did not know the spouse’s pregnancy and childbirth, etc. The detectives in charge were also surprised.

Mom Café protest call in Gumi

When the incident became known, protest calls from members of Mom Café nationwide flooded the Gumi Police Station. It was a request to reveal the face of the’maternal grandmother’ who replaced her with a young mother who neglected her child. There is also a lot of public opinion that switching to a public investigation, such as revealing the face of Seok, who is accused of replacing a child, would have helped to resolve the case.

A police official said, “As one child died and the other child cannot know whereabouts, it is urgent to check life and death as soon as possible and find the location. He said, “Even if we send recruits, we will continue to investigate the whereabouts of the child.”

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