Police Arrest 40-Year-Old Mother for Abandoning Unregistered Newborn's Body in Sacheon

The police have launched an investigation into a biological mother who buried the body of her child, whose birth was not registered, in the ground after the child died.

The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency announced on the 12th that they have non-custodially booked a woman in her 40s, identified as A, on June 7 on charges of abandonment and death of an infant, after investigating the case of a child whose birth was not registered and who died in Sacheon.

Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency.
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According to the police, Ms. A is suspected of giving birth to a son at a maternity hospital in Buyeo-gun, Chungnam, on June 27, 2016, and then failing to properly care for him, resulting in his death.

While investigating cases related to unregistered births, the police conducted a pre-booking investigation of Ms. A on the 4th at the request of Sacheon City.

Ms. A previously stated that after giving birth to her son and returning home to raise him, the child died one month after birth.

She said that although it was a long time ago and her memory was unclear, she buried the child next to her paternal grandfather’s grave in Buyeo-gun, Chungnam.

As the police investigation continued, she reportedly changed her statement, saying that she had cared for the child for about a week and buried the body near her home at that time.

The police are investigating under the charge of abandonment and death of an infant, which has a statute of limitations of 10 years, considering that the 7-year statute of limitations for the crime of corpse abandonment may have expired.

The police plan to conduct further investigations, including searching the location where Ms. A said she buried the child’s body.

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