Mother Who Abandoned 4-Year-Old Daughter in -1°C Weather and Headed to Motel... Indicted and Detained

A mother in her 30s abandoned her 4-year-old daughter on a deserted road in subzero weather.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim So-young] A woman in her 30s who abandoned her 4-year-old daughter on a deserted road in freezing weather and a man in his 20s who assisted in the crime have been arrested and indicted.

On the 22nd, the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office indicted woman A, in her 30s, and man B, in his 20s, on charges of child abandonment and neglect under the Child Welfare Act.

A is accused of abandoning her daughter, C (4), on a road in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, around 10 p.m. last month. At the time, A was riding in B's vehicle, and after making C get out of the car, she reportedly went to a nearby motel. The lowest temperature in the Goyang-si area at the time C was abandoned on the road was minus 1 degree Celsius.

Earlier that day, around 5 p.m., A took her daughter from a daycare center and got into B's vehicle. They traveled through Incheon Wolmido and Seoul Gangnam before heading to Goyang-si. A and B had known each other for two months, but it is reported that they met for the first time on the day of the crime.

A passerby who found C crying alone reported it to the police, who arrived at the scene and identified C through her daycare bag and other items, then handed her over to her biological father.

A reportedly stated, "Raising the child was difficult, so I often talked about (the child) in game chat rooms," and "B said, 'Then let's just get rid of the child,' so we met and committed the crime together."

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