A biological mother who lost her four-year-old daughter due to the police's passive 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 mother B was found dead along with her father, a man in his 40s identified as A, inside a car in Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo, Jeju, on the afternoon of the 12th.

Inside the vehicle were unconsumed antidepressant medications that had been prescribed to A, who had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other conditions.

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 in March.

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

B said 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.

"The police never actually figured out the child's location or checked on her in person," B vented, adding, "No one even checked whether the child was moving from motel to motel or sleeping on the street."

She mentioned that even when Australian police requested to locate and separate the child through Interpol, all the police did was call the child to a local police box to talk with her father for two minutes.

When B inquired with the Ministry of Justice, it was confirmed that even a child abuse report in March and a request to check the child's whereabouts in June had not even generated police reports.

Even when she requested separation after winning the Hague child return lawsuit, she only received responses saying, "The person in charge is not here, so we will contact you later."

Ultimately receiving the tragic news while waiting to bring her child back, B appealed, "The South Korean police wouldn't pick up when I called and ignored my pleas. I can only wonder what else I should have done here."

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