Supreme Court Confirms 30-Year Sentence for Stepfather and Biological Mother Who Killed Daughter

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] The stepfather and biological mother who strangled their middle school daughter to death after giving her sleeping pills have been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

On the 6th, the Supreme Court's 1st Division (Presiding Justice Lee Gitaek) upheld the original sentence of 30 years imprisonment in the appeal trial of stepfather A (32) and biological mother B (39), who were charged with murder and corpse abandonment.

They were arrested and prosecuted on charges of strangling their middle school daughter C (12) to death inside a passenger car on a farm road in Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do last April, and then dumping the body in a reservoir. A was also accused of molesting his stepdaughter.

Prior to her death, C reported A to the police for sexual molestation with the help of her biological father. After the molestation was revealed, A persuaded B to believe that C was more at fault, and they committed the crime together, according to the investigation.

The first trial recognized all their charges and sentenced each to 30 years in prison. A was also ordered to complete 40 hours of sexual violence treatment programs, disclose his personal information for 15 years, and was banned from working in child and youth-related institutions and welfare facilities for the disabled for 3 years.

They appealed, claiming the punishment was too harsh, but the second trial handed down the same sentence as the first. They appealed again for the same reason, but the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal.

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