Mother, the culprit in Suwon refrigerator infant corpse case, "Pregnant with sixth child"

Pregnancy at 15 Weeks... Husband "Heard During Visitation"
Lawyer Criticizes "Husband Is Irresponsible"

The defendant, a woman in her 30s who was arrested and detained for killing her two newborns in the 'Suwon Refrigerator Infant Corpse Case,' is reportedly pregnant with her sixth child and is currently 15 weeks pregnant.

On the 11th, during the trial for A's murder and corpse concealment charges held at the Suwon District Court Criminal Division 12 (Presiding Judge Hwang In-seong), the defense attorney asked the husband, B, who appeared as a witness, "Do you know that the defendant is currently 15 weeks pregnant?" B replied, "I heard it during a visit." Considering A's pregnancy stage, it is presumed that she became pregnant before the crime was discovered by the investigation authorities.

On the morning of June 30, A, a woman in her 30s and the biological mother suspected in the 'Suwon Refrigerator Infant Corpse Case,' who was arrested on charges of murder and corpse concealment, is being transferred from the Suwon Nambu Police Station in Gyeonggi Province to the prosecution.
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During the questioning that day, the defense attorney criticized the husband's indifference toward his wife, who repeatedly became pregnant and gave birth.

The defense said, "The defendant gave birth to three children by cesarean section and then gave birth to the victim infants by a method discouraged even by obstetricians. She said she chose this method because she did not want to inform her husband of the pregnancy and did not have his consent," adding, "I am angry that the husband irresponsibly did not even pay attention to contraception." In response to this criticism, B said, "If I had acted properly, my wife would not have done that," and added, "I think she committed the crime while continuously suffering invisible harm from her spouse. I feel responsible."

A's side claimed that the defendant committed the crime in an extreme state of agitation, suffering from postpartum depression. However, the prosecution presented KakaoTalk conversations between the defendant and her husband at the time of the crime and refuted A's claim, stating there was no evidence to suggest her psychological state was different from usual when the crime was committed.

A was arrested and indicted on charges of killing two babies born in November 2018 and November 2019 and storing their bodies in a refrigerator in their apartment. She has three children with her husband B: a 12-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old son, and an 8-year-old daughter. It was investigated that she committed the crime after becoming pregnant again amid financial difficulties.

In November 2018, A gave birth to her fourth child and first murder victim, a daughter, at a hospital, brought her home, and strangled her to death. Then, in November 2019, she gave birth to her fifth child and second murder victim, a son, at a hospital and caused his death in the same way in an alley near the hospital. She placed the babies' bodies in black plastic bags and stored them in the home refrigerator.

Her crime was uncovered last May when the Board of Audit and Inspection found cases of so-called 'shadow babies'?babies who had birth records but were not registered at birth?during an audit of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

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