'Infant's Corpse in Wardrobe' 20s Biological Mother and Cohabitant Sent to Prosecution on 'Murder Charges'

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] The 20-year-old biological mother and her cohabitant of an infant found dead inside a wardrobe in a villa in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, have been handed over to the prosecution.

On the 31st, the Gwanak Police Station in Seoul announced that they changed the charges against the infant's biological mother, Jeong Mo, and her cohabitant, Kim Mo, who were detained on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death, to murder and corpse abandonment, and sent them to the prosecution with a recommendation for indictment.

According to the police, they are suspected of neglecting and abandoning the two-month-old infant, leading to the infant's death.

A police official said, "Based on the investigation, it is difficult to believe that the suspects could not have predicted the infant's death, so the charges were changed to murder."

Murder by implied intent is recognized when the suspect sufficiently anticipates the possibility of the victim's death and has the awareness that death cannot be helped.

With the change of charges to murder, they are also considered to have failed in their duty as guardians to follow proper procedures such as reporting the infant's death, resulting in additional charges of corpse abandonment.

On the 20th, when the landlord, who had not been able to contact the tenants for some time, visited the house, they found the infant's body in a cardboard box inside the wardrobe and reported it to the police. The Gwanak Police Station arrested Jeong and others in Busan on the 22nd.

At the time of discovery, the infant's body was reported to be in a state of decomposition.

The police have not yet received the final autopsy results from the National Forensic Service as of this day, so they plan to reflect the autopsy results during the prosecution stage after sending the case to the prosecution.

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