30s Woman Suspected of Mother Swap... Illegal Adoption of 4 Newborns

'Pretending to Be a Mother' 30s Woman Arrested on Child Trafficking Charges
Paid Hospital Bills Instead... Money Given to Mother Under Postpartum Care Pretext

A woman in her 30s who was caught trying to take a baby born to another woman while pretending to be the mother in Daegu has been investigated for illegally adopting four newborns using similar methods in the past.

On the 8th, the Daegu Police Agency announced that they arrested Ms. A (37) on the 5th on charges of attempting to take a baby she did not give birth to by paying hospital fees at a university hospital (child trafficking, etc.).

A woman in her 30s who was caught trying to take a baby born to another woman while pretending to be a mother in Daegu has been investigated for illegally adopting four newborns in a similar manner in the past. The photo is not related to the specific content of the article. Photo by Pixabay

Earlier, in March, Ms. A was caught by the police after a neonatal ward staff reported her when she tried to discharge a baby boy born at a university hospital in Nam-gu, Daegu, on the 13th of the same month while pretending to be the mother.

At that time, the mother, Ms. B, had given birth to baby C by cesarean section but left the hospital saying she would take baby C later due to postpartum care and then disappeared. Later, Ms. A appeared and tried to take the baby, but the staff immediately reported it after realizing she was not Ms. B.

During the police investigation, it was confirmed that Ms. B had been admitted and treated at the hospital using Ms. A’s personal information, and the hospital fees were also paid by Ms. A. It was also found that Ms. A gave money to the mother under the pretext of postpartum care. The police stated that Ms. A consistently denied the charges, claiming she intended to raise the child herself.

However, the police investigation revealed that over the past three years, Ms. A had received babies from a total of four women, including Ms. B, and falsely registered their births as if they were her own children. The police have booked three acquaintances involved in the crime and the mothers on charges of child trafficking, and five parents who falsely registered births as their own children on charges including forgery of official documents, without detention.

The police plan to investigate whether there are more victimized children and to send Ms. A and others to the prosecution within next week.

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