"Three-Year-Old Daughter Left Unable to Even Straighten Her Body for 6 Years"... 30-Year-Old Mother Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison

A woman in her 30s has been sentenced to a heavy prison term for murdering her three-year-old daughter and conspiring with her boyfriend to abandon the body.
The Suwon District Court Ansan Branch (Criminal Division 2) sentenced the defendant, identified as A, to 13 years in prison today (July 21) and ordered a 10-year restriction on her employment at child-related institutions. She had been indicted while under detention on charges including murder and abandonment of a corpse.
The court stated, "The defendant committed an anti-humanitarian crime, forgetting her responsibility to care for her child," and added, "A heavy sentence is inevitable as she concealed the body for six years to evade the consequences of her crime."
The court further remarked, "Due to the concealment of the body, the victim was denied the minimum funeral procedures required to ensure the final dignity of a human being after death. For six years, she was buried alone in the cold ground, unable to even straighten her small body."
The defendant's former boyfriend, identified as B, who was charged with abandonment of a corpse and harboring a criminal for assisting in the disposal of the body, was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
A was indicted while under detention in April on charges of murdering her three-year-old daughter at their home in Siheung, Gyeonggi Province, in March 2020, and conspiring with B to abandon the body on a mountain in Ansan.
The prosecution concluded that A committed the crime out of resentment after finding herself in a situation where she had to raise the child alone following her divorce.
To hide the fact that her daughter had died, A applied for a postponement of the child's elementary school enrollment in 2024, and earlier this year, she even took B's niece to school on several occasions, pretending she was her daughter.
A and B, who were caught following a report from the school, both admitted to the charges during the trial.
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