Man in his 30s sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing intellectually disabled cohabitant with a three-section staff confirmed

A woman in her 30s who killed her intellectually disabled cohabiting partner by beating him with a telescopic baton and then abandoned the body was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The Supreme Court's 3rd Division (Presiding Justice Oh Seok-jun) announced on the 28th that it upheld the original sentence of 25 years in prison for A, who was charged with murder and corpse abandonment.

A was tried on charges of killing her cohabiting partner B (then 31 years old) by beating him with a telescopic baton at a residence in Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju City, in February last year.

A and B began cohabiting after meeting through trading secondhand goods. Subsequently, A became pregnant with B's child, continuing their de facto marital relationship. However, A started to change as she suspected B of infidelity. Although B denied any affair, A did not believe him and even installed a ‘home CCTV’ to monitor him, deepening her suspicions.

Eventually, unable to contain her anger and hostility toward B, A confined B, who was only wearing underwear, in an unheated veranda for several days, withholding food and water and preventing him from using the bathroom. During this time, she repeatedly assaulted B’s head and other parts of his body with a telescopic baton made of titanium. B sustained numerous injuries all over his body from the eight days of abuse and died from hypothermia.

After B’s death, A covered the body with clothing to conceal it and left it unattended on the veranda for over a month before surrendering to the police.

Both the first and second trials sentenced her to 25 years in prison, stating, "The crime was brutal with merciless assault on the victim, the bereaved family is suffering extreme mental anguish, and they are pleading for severe punishment."

The Supreme Court also agreed with the lower courts’ judgment.

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