Woman Arrested for Killing 4-Month-Old Son: "Committed Crime Worried Child Would Live as Disabled"

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] A woman accused of causing the death of her 4-month-old son was arrested on the 16th.

Judge Kwon Deok-jin, in charge of warrants at the Seoul Eastern District Court, conducted a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant substantive examination) for A, who is charged with murder, and issued an arrest warrant, determining that there was a risk of flight.

According to the police, A is suspected of suffocating the child to death at her home in Seongdong-gu around 5:40 p.m. on the 14th.

At around 5:55 p.m. that day, A reported to 119, saying, "I came back from doing the dishes and found the child dead." Later, when the police found suspicious points during the investigation and questioned her about the cause of death, A confessed to the crime.

A reportedly told the police that "the child had a developmental disability, and I committed the crime because I was worried that the child would live as a disabled person even after becoming an adult."

Additionally, A said that she was taking medication for postpartum depression and had searched for terms like "baby suffocation death" on her mobile phone, but the police stated that this has not yet been confirmed.

The police plan to investigate the exact circumstances of the crime by employing techniques such as digital forensic analysis of A's mobile phone data.

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