'30-Year-Old Mother Arrested for Leaving 20-Day-Old Infant in Trunk Causing Death'

Biological Father Who Underwent Warrant Hearing Together Avoids Detention

A woman in her 30s was arrested for placing her baby, less than a month old, in a car trunk, leaving the infant to die, and then abandoning the body.

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On the 9th, according to the Hwaseong Western Police Station in Gyeonggi Province, the Suwon District Court conducted a pre-arrest detention hearing for suspect A, who is charged with murder and corpse abandonment, and issued an arrest warrant citing "risk of flight" and other reasons.

The arrest warrant for a man in his 40s, B, who underwent the same hearing on the same day for the same charges, was dismissed. The court judged that there was no need to detain B considering his living environment and other factors.

A gave birth to a male infant at a hospital in Yongin on December 29 last year and was discharged 10 days later, on the 8th of last month. A and B are accused of placing the baby in a car trunk and traveling with the child until the baby died. On the early morning of the 21st of last month, they allegedly abandoned the infant’s body in the bushes on Jebudo Island in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong City. During that period, they reportedly moved between motels and other places by car or lived in the car. According to A’s statement, they later opened the trunk and found the baby had died.

On the morning of the 6th at 10:50 a.m., police responded to a report from a citizen who was walking on Jebudo Island, stating that there was an object presumed to be an infant’s body in the bushes. The baby’s body was wrapped in a sack, showed no external injuries, and had not yet decomposed.

The police arrested A and B at a motel in Yongin at around 6:20 p.m. the following day.

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