A mother was arrested by the police for secretly burying her newborn infant in a garden without registering the birth after the baby died one day after birth.


The Women and Juvenile Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 6th that they had urgently detained and were investigating Ms. A, a woman in her 40s, on charges of abandoning a corpse.


Ms. A is suspected of giving birth to a daughter at a hospital in Incheon on August 7, 2016, and after the baby died the next day, secretly burying her in a garden in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi Province, without any funeral procedures.



The police received information from Michuhol-gu, Incheon, regarding a child with only birth records but no birth registration, and after investigation, urgently detained Ms. A on the afternoon of the previous day.


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