Daughter Dies One Day After Birth, Buried Secretly in Garden... Biological Mother Charged with Murder

Police Discover Infant Presumed Remains in Garden Plot

A murder charge has been additionally applied to a biological mother who caused the death of her newborn daughter seven years ago and secretly buried her in a garden plot without registering the birth or holding a funeral.

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On the 6th, the Women and Juvenile Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency announced that they plan to apply a murder charge along with the charge of abandoning a corpse against A, a woman in her 40s who was urgently arrested, and request an arrest warrant.

A is suspected of causing the death of her second daughter B, who was one day old, and secretly burying her in a garden plot in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi Province, on August 8, 2016. In the initial police investigation, A stated, "I was discharged from the hospital the day after giving birth and came home, but the baby suddenly stopped breathing," and "Since the baby died shortly after birth, I just thought of burying her in the ground without a funeral."

However, based on A’s statements obtained during further investigation, the police found circumstances suggesting that she killed the baby and applied the murder charge. A partially admitted to the murder charge, saying, "It was difficult to continue raising the child due to financial reasons." The investigation revealed that A was separated from her husband at the time she gave birth to B and later divorced. A is currently raising her eldest teenage son alone.

However, A refuses to testify about whether B was a child born from her previous husband. She told the police that "my ex-husband probably did not know that I gave birth to the baby and secretly buried her."

The police discovered remains presumed to be those of B at the garden plot where A said she buried her daughter at around 3:50 p.m. that day. The land is understood to be owned by A’s mother. A police official said, "We plan to request an autopsy from the National Forensic Service to confirm whether the discovered remains are indeed B’s and to determine the exact cause of death."

Earlier, the police received data related to a child who had a birth record but no birth registration from Michuhol-gu, Incheon, and after investigation, urgently arrested A on the charge of abandoning a corpse the previous afternoon. A was caught about a month before the statute of limitations for the crime of abandoning a corpse, which expires on the 7th of next month (7 years).

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