Young Daughter Found Dead Next to Ex-Husband... Mother Cries Out "Police Ignored Us"

The biological mother who lost her four-year-old daughter due to the police's lax response, despite winning a child return lawsuit, vented her anger, saying, "I have cried so much that I have no tears left."

The young daughter of the biological mother B was found dead along with the child's father, a man in his 40s named A, inside a vehicle in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, on the afternoon of October 12.

Inside the vehicle were unconsumed antidepressant medications that had been prescribed for A, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The ex-husband A, who lived in Australia, brought the child to South Korea without consent in October of last year. Concerned about A's condition, B filed a Hague child abduction return lawsuit and won the case in March.

Following the court ruling, B came from Australia to South Korea in April to bring the child back, but A moved around residences and lived in hiding with the daughter.

B stated that she reported her daughter missing to the police, but the police closed the case on the grounds that they had a video call with the child.

B vented her frustration, saying, "The police did not actually determine the child's location or check in person," and "No one even checked whether the child was moving from motel to motel or even homeless."

She mentioned that even when the Australian police requested to locate the child and separate her through Interpol, all that was done was calling the child to a local police box to have a two-minute conversation with the father.

As a result of B inquiring with the Ministry of Justice, it was confirmed that no police reports were even written for the child abuse report in March and the request to locate the child in June.

Even when she demanded separation after winning the Hague child return lawsuit, the only response she received was, "There is no person in charge, so we will contact you later."

B, who received the tragic news while waiting to bring her child back, appealed, saying, "The Korean police wouldn't answer when I called and just ignored my pleas," adding, "I am left wondering what else I should have or could have done here."

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