[매일안전신문=이현정 기자] This fall event draws attention.
In SBS ‘I want to know’, which aired at 11:15 pm on the 10th, autumn was drawn about the incident.
The incident covered on this day’s broadcast began on December 14, 2022, when a woman in her 20s urgently entered the emergency room. At first glance, a small child was cradled in the woman’s arms. She was immediately taken to the intensive care unit, but by the time she reached the hospital she was already a child who appeared to be dead. However, the doctors who saw Ga-gaeul were shocked.
Ga-ga, who was five years old, was 17cm shorter than the average age and weighed 7kg, 10kg less than the average age. He died of thinning under the weight of a four-month-old newborn. Specialists who saw the photos were shocked by the mummy-like appearance, saying that it was difficult to dry like this even if she was fighting cancer or had a congenital disease. In addition, Ga-ri had his skull fractured, had cerebral hemorrhages at different times, and his ribs had marks of broken bones.
The police, who received a report from the medical team, urgently arrested Lee Hye-joo (pseudonym), the real mother, on charges of child abuse. She explained that Hye-joo Lee, who meekly admitted her crime, fell down after her child hit her head on her bed frame while disciplining Ga-gul, who secretly ate her sweets on the day of her death. She claimed it was an accident, but during the ensuing police investigation, Lee Hye-joo confided that she had fed her only one or two meals a day by rolling her rice in powdered water for six months before Ka-gul’s death. In this way, the case seemed to end in tragedy due to the abuse and neglect of Lee Hye-joo, the mother of her mother.
However, in addition to Lee Hye-joo, Choi Soo-bin (pseudonym) and Lee Hye-joo’s husband lived together in the house where Ka-gae died. While Choi Soo-bin ran a chat room where she shared her child’s diet, she became acquainted with Lee Hye-joo and helped her like a trustworthy older sister, she said. Her biological mother, Lee Hye-ju, escaped her husband’s child abuse and took Ga-gae to the house of Soo-bin Choi, who lives in Busan, around September 2020. Lee Hye-joo and Choi Soo-bin, Choi’s husband and two children lived together in a small 16-pyeong apartment with Ga-gaeul in a strange way. Lee Hye-joo stated during the police investigation, “The Choi couple has nothing to do with Ga-gaeul’s death.”
The investigation revealed shocking facts. From a few months after her biological mother Lee Hye-joo moved into Choi Soo-bin’s house until her Ga-gai passed away, she had engaged in prostitution three to four times a day on average for a year and a half, she said. It was so frequent that she could not live her daily life. Surprisingly, Lee Hye-joo’s 130 million won money was transferred to Choi Soo-bin, her housemate. Lee Hye-joo herself did not have tens of thousands of won in her hands or a proper mobile phone. Even when she was having a seizure right before Ga-gae died, she did her chores that Soo-bin Choi had asked her to do and she took care of her child, Ha-won, and she said that she did.
Lee Hye-joo, who claimed that Soo-bin Choi had nothing to do with the abuse and death of Ga-gul, belatedly overturned his statement. She said that when Ga-gae ate food secretly, she told Choi Soo-bin to correct her discipline, and she even beat Ga-eul herself. did.
Maeil Safety Newspaper / Reporter Lee Hyeon-jeong [email protected]
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