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

It was belatedly learned that a man in his 20s with an intellectual disability was found dead days after passing away in a household where all three family members have intellectual disabilities.

According to the Seoul Jungnang Police Station today (September 14), 20-something intellectually disabled man A was found dead at a home in Jungnang-gu on August 6 last year.

Police, who were dispatched following a report from the younger brother that A was not moving, found A's body, which had begun to decompose several days after death.

A had been living with his mother and younger brother, but because all of them suffer from severe intellectual disabilities, they reportedly failed to realize A's death.

Police estimated that A died two to three days before being found and concluded that there was no relation to crime.

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