Mother Who Buried Her 1-Week-Old Daughter Alive Causing Death...Warrant Hearing on the 7th

Whether to detain the woman in her 40s who buried her one-week-old daughter alive in a garden plot, causing the child's death, will be decided on the 7th.

According to the Women and Juvenile Crime Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency on the 7th, the pre-trial detention hearing (warrant review) for the woman in her 40s, identified as A, who is accused of murder and corpse abandonment, will be held at 2 p.m. at the Incheon District Court.

A is suspected of burying her daughter B, born at a hospital in Incheon on August 7, 2016, in a garden plot in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, about a week later, causing her death.

Initially, A stated that her daughter died one day after birth and was buried in the garden plot. However, police investigation revealed that A caused B's death about a week after birth and secretly buried the body.

At the time, A gave birth to B while separated from her ex-husband, and the identity of B's biological father has not been disclosed. During police questioning, she partially admitted to the murder charge, stating, "I found it difficult to raise my daughter for financial reasons."

The police confirmed B's skeletal remains at the garden plot pointed out by A during an on-site inspection the previous day. The land is understood to be owned by A's mother.

A woman in her 40s is accused of secretly burying her one-week-old daughter in a vegetable garden, causing her death.
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Meanwhile, the police also applied charges of child abuse under the Child Welfare Act, suspecting that A emotionally abused her eldest son C (9), born from her relationship with her ex-husband.

A is accused of emotionally abusing C at her home in Incheon and other locations. It is reported that C suffered emotional trauma related to the abandonment of his aunt's body by his mother.

A police official stated, "We cannot disclose specific abuse details to protect the victim," adding, "There was no evidence that A physically abused her son."

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