"Parents Might Tell Us to Break Up" Common-Law Couple Kills and Abandons 5-Day-Old Son (Summary)

A common-law couple who killed their 5-day-old son and abandoned the body revealed their motive for the murder.

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 arrested on charges of strangling their son to death and abandoning the body.

They were urgently arrested around 10:30 p.m. on June 30 for allegedly abandoning their son's body in a mountain near a residence in Geoje on September 9 of last year.

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

At the time of arrest, they stated that after being discharged from the hospital four days after childbirth and returning home, they found C dead upon waking and buried him in the mountain. However, during further investigation, they confessed to strangling their son to death.

It was revealed that Mr. A directly strangled C to death, while Ms. B witnessed the act.

They told the police that they committed the crime due to financial difficulties and fear that their respective parents would find out about the birth, which would lead to their separation.

Initially, they claimed to have secretly buried the body in the mountain, but later said they had abandoned it in a nearby stream in the early morning of the day after the murder.

Mr. A reportedly admitted that he intended to bury the body in the mountain but changed the location because people were passing by.

The police searched the mountain where the deceased C was said to have been buried for two days and are now focusing on the location indicated by the couple to find the body.

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