[Comprehensive] "I Have Never Given Birth" Gumi 3-Year-Old Biological Mother Denies Until the End... Sent to Prosecution

Suspected Minor Abduction and Corpse Abandonment
DNA Test Results Not Accepted
Holding Reporters' Hands, Pleads "Please Believe Me"

On the afternoon of the 17th, Seok Mo, the biological mother of a 3-year-old girl who died, is being transported in a police vehicle at the Gumi Police Station in Gyeongbuk. The police added charges of attempted corpse abandonment to the existing charges of abducting a minor and sent her to the prosecution. / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Ju-hyung] Seok Mo (48), the biological mother of a 3-year-old girl found dead in a vacant house in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, was sent to the prosecution on the 17th. After being detained, Seok repeatedly denied giving birth, and on this day, she also refused to acknowledge the DNA test results.

At around 1:20 p.m., as Seok was entering the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office Kimcheon Branch from the Gumi Police Station, she responded "No" to a reporter's question asking, "Is the deceased child really your daughter?"

When asked, "Do you think the DNA test results are wrong?" she suddenly grabbed the reporter's hand and pleaded, "When I say it's not me, I hope you believe my sincerity."

She then raised her voice toward the press, saying, "I have never given birth to a child," and "I really have never given birth."

Seok was sent to the prosecution with a recommendation for indictment on charges including attempted abduction of a minor and attempted corpse disposal. Among these, the attempted abduction of a minor pertains to the missing child of her biological daughter, A, and the attempted corpse disposal charge relates to the deceased girl.

According to the police, Seok discovered the girl's body in a house where her daughter A lived on the 9th of last month. However, she did not report it immediately and instead informed her husband the next day, the 10th, after which they went together to confirm the body and then reported it.

Seok, identified as the biological mother of the 3-year-old girl who died in Gumi, Gyeongbuk, is entering the courthouse to undergo a detention warrant hearing. / Photo by Yonhap News

Upon receiving the report, the police initially treated A as the biological mother of the deceased girl and booked her on charges including child abuse resulting in death, detaining her for investigation. However, DNA tests revealed that Seok, not A, was the biological mother of the girl, leading the case into an unexpected phase.

Some have suggested the possibility that Seok, who initially claimed to be the girl's maternal grandmother, might have swapped her own daughter with A's biological daughter, who gave birth around the same time.

However, Seok continues to maintain that she is not the biological mother of the girl. Notably, on the 11th, while under detention, she clearly answered "Yes" when asked by reporters if she thought the DNA test results were wrong.

Nonetheless, the possibility of an error in the DNA test results is virtually nonexistent.

A National Forensic Service (NFS) official explained to Yonhap News on the 16th that the probability of a biological relationship between Seok and the deceased girl is "over 99.9999%." This means the chance of an error in the DNA test confirming their biological relationship is practically zero.

Additionally, according to the police's polygraph test results, Seok showed deceptive responses when asked, "Have you ever given birth to a baby?"

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