Living downstairs to the parent of the child’s birth mother
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A 3-year-old girl found in a mummy state in Gumi
A 3-year-old girl was found months after she died in a villa in Gumi, Gyeongbuk. The police are investigating that the child must have been alive when the mother, A, in her 20s, left her daughter at home alone.
The police are also looking into why Mr. A’s parents, who lived just below Mr. A’s house, did not feel popular. It was found that Mr. A’s parents knew that Mr. A moved six months ago and the upper house was empty.
The child who died was discovered by his maternal grandfather, namely A’s father, who lives on the lower floor of Mr. A’s villa in Gumi, around 3 pm on the 10th. A’s father, who visited his daughter’s house after receiving a call from the landlord asking him to leave the house due to the expiration of the contract, found and reported the body of the child who had been neglected alone. The body was in a state of decay that was difficult to recognize. At the time of discovery, the house was not heated and the area was full of garbage.
The mother A, who is accused of neglecting her 3-year-old daughter in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, and causing her death, is going through an interrogation (substantial detention warrant) before arrest at the Daegu District Court’s Gimcheon Branch on New Year’s Day 12. News 1
Police “Bad between birth mother and grandparents”
Even though A’s parents haven’t seen her granddaughter’s face for about six months, there are also doubts that they did not consider it suspicious. The police are seeing that Mr. A had an unusually bad relationship with his parents. The explanation is that they did not know that the granddaughter died because they were not in contact with each other.
A police official said, “It seems that there were many reasons for having a bad relationship with the parents, such as having a child when Mr. A was a minor and the relationship between the couple was not smooth.”
In addition, the police are focusing their investigation efforts on proving Mr. A’s murder charges. The police’s judgment is that the charges of murder can be applied even if the birth mother killed the child and abandoned the body, or simply left the child alone without taking the body of the child who died elsewhere. Just leaving a 3-year-old girl in need of parental care at home alone is enough to know that the child will die.
In this regard, Mr. A did not answer any questions from the reporters asking about the motives of the crime when he was interrogated (substantial warrant) before arrest for murder on the 12th.
Meanwhile, the decay of the dead girl is so severe that the autopsy is expected to take quite some time. In addition to the cause of death, it is necessary to investigate whether or not they were abused during their lifetime, but the organs are severely corrupted, making it difficult to investigate. An official from the Gumi Police Department said, “It is expected that the results will come out around the 18th, but it may take longer than this.”
Earlier, Mr. A moved to the vicinity of the villa where he originally lived about six months ago, in August of last year. In the process, he left the child alone. At the same time, until recently, the local government paid 200,000 won for child-rearing and child allowances.
Mr. A stated that “I didn’t want to see him as my ex-husband child,” as to why the police left the child. He also said, “It has been a long time since I lost contact with my father, and it was very difficult financially in the process of raising a child.”
Gumi = Reporter Kim Jeong-seok
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