Mother who fatally beat her 2-week-old son says, "Is my husband really the father?"... Demands DNA test

Wife: "I feel so lonely, postpartum depression... I was unwell and hit my child"

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A post uploaded on the SNS account of the wife who was arrested on charges of child abuse causing serious injury, assault, and murder. Photo by SNS capture.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-ju] Regarding the case of a couple in their 20s in Iksan, Jeonbuk, who assaulted their two-week-old son to death, it has been revealed that the mother, Ms. A (22), repeatedly shared her concerns hinting at conflicts with her husband on social networking services (SNS) related to childbirth and childcare.

According to JoongAng Ilbo on the 19th, Ms. A had been active as a "popular post author" in a private Facebook group mainly composed of mothers since November 2019, posting several times.

Ms. A posted in December 2019, shortly after her first daughter was born, saying "#postpartumdepression" and "I feel distant from my husband. It feels like he ignores me and doesn't care. He is always drinking, so I feel alone. I don't know if it's depression, but I feel very lonely."

Last month, just before giving birth to her second son, she posted, "My husband said the first and second children are not his and look like other men's kids, and suggested doing a DNA test. So I said 'Okay.' He insists that their blood types statistically cannot come from him. What should I do in this situation?"

On the 27th of last month, when she gave birth to her second son, Ms. A also posted, "I gave birth to my second son at 6:07 a.m." This post was met with a flood of critical comments from members saying, "How could you kill your child after posting something like this?"

Ms. A and her husband, Mr. B (24), stated during recent police investigations that "there was a marital dispute."

However, a police official said, "We cannot confirm family matters that seem unrelated to child abuse, such as the DNA test." It was also reported that there had been a past domestic violence report stating "the wife was beaten by the husband."

Even after giving birth to her son, Ms. A wrote on SNS that "blood keeps coming from the site of the cesarean section," indicating health problems.

A police official stated, "Ms. A testified that she hit the child because she was unwell after giving birth."

The couple is accused of assaulting their two-week-old son by throwing him onto a bed in an officetel in Iksan on the 9th, resulting in his death.

During police questioning, the couple reportedly said, "He kept crying and spit up formula, so we hit him." After assaulting their son, they searched on their smartphones for "how to quickly get rid of bruises."

The police applied charges of child abuse causing serious injury, assault, and murder, and referred the couple to the prosecution on the 18th. While acknowledging the charges, the couple reportedly showed attitudes that seemed to shift the responsibility for the child's death onto each other.

A police official stated, "Based on the autopsy opinion that if the child had been immediately taken to the hospital for treatment, death could have been prevented, we applied the charge of murder by omission against them."

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