Police Begin Exhumation of Infant's Body in Two-Day-Old Baby Burial Case

The police investigating the case in which a mother secretly buried her two-day-old baby have begun an excavation of the body.

On the 12th, the Women and Juvenile Crime Investigation Unit of the Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency received the case from the Mokpo Police Station on the 11th and is searching for the buried baby's body on the hillside in Gwangyang City, as indicated by the mother.

The excavation involved 18 personnel, including forensic investigators from the Jeonnam agency and the officers in charge, and the police explained that since the search area was narrowed down, they did not deploy many personnel for the excavation.

The police began this investigation after receiving a request from local governments following a comprehensive survey of so-called 'ghost infants.'

A 30-year-old mother, Ms. A, who was urgently arrested on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death, gave birth to her son at a hospital in Mokpo on October 27, 2017, and was discharged two days later, taking the baby to her parents' home in Gwangyang.

Ms. A testified to the police that while she was in the bathroom that day, the baby stopped breathing, so she buried the body on the hillside.

It is known that Ms. A claimed she did not hold a funeral because the baby was not registered at birth.

The police found other suspicious circumstances and applied charges of child abuse resulting in death rather than abandonment of a corpse.

The police plan to excavate the baby's body, ascertain the exact circumstances of the case, and apply for an arrest warrant for Ms. A.

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