Replace a child with blood type and DNA… “Someone helped my mother”

A four-story villa located in Sangmosagok-dong, Gumi-si, Gyeongbuk, on the afternoon of the 26th. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary building between residential areas, but on the faces of the residents, it was strong to be wary of strangers.

On the third floor of this building, a three-year-old girl was found dead alone last month. When the body was discovered, it was only reported as a bizarre incident that took place when a mother in her twenties moved with her new husband and left her child alone. However, as a result of a recent DNA test revealed that Mr. A, 48, who was known as his maternal grandmother, was the mother of the deceased child, the case was reversed 180 degrees.

A resident who met in a nearby park said, “The day is far away, and media coverage vehicles are running around the alleys, and recently, YouTubers are going to reveal the truth, and the whole neighborhood is messy with the barrels going around here and there.”

Even today, nearly 50 days after the child was found dead, the clues of the incident remain unresolved. A, who was designated as his mother, did not admit that he had not only been accused of changing the child, but even his childbirth. Mr. A has maintained the same position until now, after being arrested by the police on the 8th and being sent to the prosecution for investigation.

The police have conducted DNA tests three times and searched around 100 nearby obstetrics and gynecologists, trying to secure evidence that Mr. A had a child and replaced it with the child of his daughter B, 22. The Daegu District Prosecutor’s Office, Gimcheon District, who is investigating the case, also sent A’s DNA to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s Scientific Investigation Department to request an examination.

In particular, recently, a decisive clue was obtained from the medical records of the obstetrics and gynecology clinic in 2018 when Mr. B gave birth. It is explained that the newborn’s blood type shown in the medical records is a blood type that cannot be found between Mr. B and the ex-husband, and it is different from the blood type collected from the deceased child.

The police began investigating whether or not a conspiracy was made against officials who were currently working at a gynecology clinic in Gumi City. This obstetrics and gynecology department was pointed out by the police as having “changed children” by Mr. A. According to an investigative agency, the police are investigating whether there are any relatives or acquaintances with Mr. A by identifying the identity of the workers at the time in 2018 when Mr. B gave birth to a girl.

In addition, the National Institute for Scientific Investigation confirmed that the blood type and genetic factors of the deceased child were the number of cases that could never be found between Mr. B and his ex-husband. This is evidence that A is in direct conflict with the assertion that “(the dead child) is the daughter of my daughter.”

Even if the case fell into a labyrinth like this, it is expected that the truth battle will be fierce. On the 10th, Mr. B was handed over to trial on four charges including the murder, the Child Welfare Act, the Child Allowance Act, and the Infant Care Act. On the 9th of next month, the first trial is scheduled at the Gimcheon Branch of the Daegu District Court. Mr. A is also scheduled to be handed over to trial after the prosecution has completed the investigation by extending the arrest period until the 5th of next month.

In order to retrace this incident, which is going to be a’dead end’, which is difficult to understand in common sense, we need to go back to the time when Mr. B’s child was born in the world in 2018.

According to investigative agencies, Mr. B delivered a girl normally in March 2018 at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Gumi City. The investigative agency believes that Mr. A gave birth to a girl just before Mr. B gave birth. In fact, it was confirmed that Mr. A searched for’how to give birth alone’ on the Internet when childbirth was imminent. There was also a situation where they wore clothes that were larger in size than the usual clothes.

Later, the police explained that Mr. A swapped the child he had with the child he had. The police reported that the obstetrics and gynecologist, where Mr. B gave birth, is investigating it as the place where the replacement of the child took place. The whereabouts of Mr. B’s daughter, that is, Mr. A’s granddaughter, who disappeared during this process is still unknown.

The police believe that Mr. A’s husband or the ex-husband of Mr. B and Mr. B did not recognize the crime. In the smartphone messenger conversation between Mr. A and Mr. B last October last year, Mr. A said, “The second (the child B born with the new husband) resembles the first (the dead child) except for the eyebrows.” Mr. wrote, “Mother (Mr. A) makes fun of not having second eyebrows.” It is interpreted as the situation that Mr. B did not know that the child was replaced.

However, according to the police’s explanation, Mr. A was pregnant, gave birth, and even changed children without anyone in the family knowing. Considering that this is very unlikely, there is still an open possibility that the family also participated in A’s child change.

It was early last year that Mr. B divorced his ex-husband. After that, it was found that the ex-husband had never met the child. Whenever the ex-husband asked Mr. B to meet his child several times, Mr. B was said to have sent a picture, saying, “The child is doing well.” There is also a situation in which, even after leaving the child alone in an empty house, he contacted his acquaintances as if they were still living with the child.

It was in early August last year that the replaced girl was left alone at home. B leaves the girl alone and moves to her new husband’s house. A couple lived on the lower floor of the villa, but they did not know that a girl was left behind. On the 9th of last month, Mr. A, who received a call from the landlord asking him to remove his room, found a girl who died after entering the upper house after six months. At that time, A police investigation revealed that he tried to abandon the body without reporting it immediately, but gave up. At the time, Mr. A stated that he gave up the abandonment of the body halfway, saying, “I was scared by a sudden blown strong wind.”

It is presumed that the girl was left alone in an empty room with no moving things and died of death. At the time of discovery, it was in a state of mummification due to severe corruption. Noodles were also highly corrupted, so the exact cause of death could not be identified. After completing DNA collection, the police cremated the girl’s body.

There are not one or two things left as a mystery in this case. The DNA test results indicate that Mr. A is the mother of the deceased child, but the biggest question is that Mr. A strongly denies this. It is questioned whether Mr. A’s husband and other family members were really unaware of Mr. A’s pregnancy and childbirth. The whereabouts of the missing child and the father of the deceased child are also homework for the investigation authorities to reveal.

Gumi = Reporter Kim Jeong-seok and Baek Gyeong-seo

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