"My Brother Won't Move"... Tragedy of a Family with Intellectual Disabilities

It was belatedly learned that a man in his 20s, who was the eldest son of a family where all three members have intellectual disabilities, was found dead days after his passing.

According to the Seoul Jungrang Police Station today (September 14), A, a man in his 20s with an intellectual disability, was found dead at a home in Jungrang-gu on August 6.

Police, responding to a report from his younger brother that A would not move, arrived at the scene to find A's body, which had begun to decompose several days after death.

A lived with his mother and younger brother, but because all of them suffered from severe intellectual disabilities, they reportedly failed to realize that A had died.

Police estimate that A died two to three days before he was found, and concluded that there was no relation to crime.

An autopsy by the National Forensic Service confirmed that the cause of A's death was acute cardiac arrest.
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