Common-law couple who buried their 5-day-old son admits to "strangling to death"

A common-law couple arrested on charges of burying their 5-day-old son in a mountain was found to have strangled the child to death.

According to the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency on the 2nd, a man in his 20s, Mr. A, and a woman in her 30s, Ms. B, were urgently arrested on the night of June 30th around 10:30 PM for wrapping their son in a plastic bag and burying him in a mountain.

They were caught on charges of abandoning their son's body in a mountain near a residential area in Geoje last year on September 9th.

The two, who are in a common-law relationship, gave birth to a boy named C at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Geoje City on September 5th of the same year.

At the time of arrest, they stated that they were discharged from the hospital four days after the birth, returned to their residence, and found C dead after waking up, so they buried the body in the mountain.

During further police investigation, they confessed to strangling their son to death and said they had disposed of the body in a nearby stream.

The police searched the location of abandonment mentioned by Mr. A for two days based on the statement that C’s body was buried in a nearby mountain but failed to find C.

They are continuing the search at the site of body disposal mentioned in additional statements during further investigation.

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