A mother in her 20s who abandoned her newborn baby on the shore of a lake in sub-zero weather was arrested and handed over to trial, but was released with the court’s mercy.
At the sentencing hearing on the 20th, the 14th Criminal Division of the Incheon District Court (Chief Judge Ryu Gyeong-jin) sentenced A (23), who was arrested and indicted for attempted murder, to 3 years in prison and 5 years probation. The court also ordered Mr. A to do 160 hours of community service and restricted him from getting a job at a child-related agency for 5 years.
The judge said, “There is nothing that a newborn baby can do according to his or her own will, but the only guardian acts like this, so the crime is not good먹튀검증.”
She explained, “If it was difficult for her to raise her on her own, there were many ways to have someone else raise the child without abandoning it, but she did not seek it.”
However, he said, “It is fortunate that the victim child was found and rescued by a passer-by, and it was only an attempted murder. This happened while the defendant was living with a new person after breaking up with the child victim’s father, and we can guess most of the difficult circumstances of the defendant.”
Then, the court said, “The accused married her boyfriend after the crime in this case,” and “I took into account the part where her family appealed for leniency.”
Earlier, on the 20th of last month, the prosecution had asked for 5 years in prison, saying, “As her mother, she committed a crime against a child who was only 3 days old, who should be protected.”
On January 20, Mr. A was charged with attempting to kill his 3-day-old son by abandoning him on a trail around a lake in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do.
Mr. A, who lived in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do at the time, went to Gangwon-do with his boyfriend to play, gave birth to his son at the hospital, and then abandoned it in sub-zero cold.
On the same day, a citizen walking along the Dulle-gil found the baby. The baby showed symptoms of hypothermia and was taken to a nearby large hospital.
At the time of the arrest, Mr. A was found to have stated, “I had no intention of raising my ex-boyfriend’s child.”
Mr. A, who appeared in court wearing a light green shroud that day, shed tears with his head bowed while the judge read the verdict.