A 13-Month-Old Boy Found Dead at a '24-Hour Care' Daycare Center
13-Month-Old Boy Found Dead at Daycare
Police Request Autopsy and Investigate Exact Circumstances
A 13-month-old boy was found dead at a daycare center that provided 24-hour care, prompting the police to launch an investigation. Photo by a photographer unrelated to the article.
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] A 13-month-old boy who was receiving 24-hour care at a daycare center in Incheon was found dead.
According to the Namdong Police Station and Incheon Fire Department on the 4th, at around 6:15 a.m. that day, a report was received via 119 that "a child (student A) is not breathing" at a daycare center in Ganseok-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon.
It was confirmed that daycare teacher B discovered A not breathing and made the report. At the time, B entered the director's office where A was sleeping to feed him formula milk in the morning and found him.
The paramedics who received the report requested joint response from the police and then rushed to the scene. Afterwards, they confirmed rigor mortis (a phenomenon where muscles stiffen after death in a state of cardiac arrest) in A at the daycare center director's office and transported him to the hospital. No other external injuries were found.
According to the investigation, A had fallen asleep the previous evening in the daycare center director's office along with one peer student and one daycare teacher. The daycare teacher stated in the police investigation, "I put the child to sleep last night, but when I woke up in the morning, he was already not breathing."
The police have requested an autopsy from the National Forensic Service to determine the exact cause of A's death and are investigating the precise circumstances of the incident.
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A police official said, "We need to conduct additional investigations regarding whether A had any underlying medical conditions," adding, "No signs of trauma or abuse have been confirmed so far."
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