The Tragic Case of the Starved Girl and the Baby Swap Scandal in South Korea

In February 2021, a 3-year-old girl in Gumi City, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea was found tragically abandoned by her 24-year-old “mother” woman surnamed Kim in an apartment, and her body decomposed after her death. However, the results of three DNA tests showed that the girl’s 50-year-old “grandmother” surnamed Shi is the girl’s biological mother. Therefore, the originally identified biological mother is actually the girl’s older sister. In January last year, the judge confirmed that Shi Fu had exchanged her own baby girl with the baby girl born to her daughter Jin Nu in 2018. Therefore, Shi Fu was sentenced to 8 years in prison in the second trial, while Jin Nu was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Year. However, the latest news pointed out that for the subcontracting crime, Shi Fu was finally found by the prosecution to have insufficient evidence, so she was acquitted.

According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, the first-instance judge of the Jinquan Branch of the Daegu District Court speculated that Shi Fu might sneak into the obstetrics and gynecology department during the period from March 30, 2018 to April 8, 2018, when Jin Fu was discharged from the hospital. The navel of the baby girl who was taken away at the time was still hung with umbilical cord clamps, and the detached navel was put into a contact lens box for storage. The DNA of the starved girl was found in the contact lens storage box during the identification, which confirmed that the golden woman was discharged from the hospital. The baby girl who walked away is the same person as the baby girl born by the stone woman.

The 5th Department of Criminal Prosecution of the Daegu District Court held the second trial on January 26 last year. The Minister Judge Jin Shengyue rejected the appeal of the defendant Shi Fu and the prosecutor, and upheld Shi Fu’s sentence of 8 years in prison in the first trial. In fact, the relationship has a considerable degree of binding force. Judging from the results of the three DNA tests, it can be considered that the biological mother-daughter relationship between the deceased girl and the defendant Shifu is established.”

According to the police’s previous review of the birth records of Jin Fu’s obstetrics and gynecology department in Gumi City, it was found that the girl’s blood type was A, Jin Fu’s blood type was B, and her ex-husband Hong’s was O. Biologically, the two parties could not give birth to a fetus with blood type A, so The judge further pointed out that, “Looking at the child’s blood type and all the conditions before and after birth, this court made the same judgment as the first instance, and found that the defendant (Shi Fu) had between March 31 and April 1, 2018, Swapping the baby girl he gave birth to with the daughter born to his daughter (Golden Girl).”

The report pointed out that Shi Fu was suspected of switching the baby girl born by her daughter Jinnu with the baby girl she secretly gave birth to in an obstetrics and gynecology department in Gumi City from the end of March to the beginning of April 2018. Now the baby born by Jinnu is unknown. where to go. According to the investigation, on February 9, 2021, the day before she reported the case to the police, Mrs. Shi entered Jinnv’s residence and tried to put the body of the starved girl into a box and discard it.

In addition, because Jinnu maliciously abandoned the girl, the girl starved to death in the apartment and her body rotted. The second trial decision upheld the first-instance judgment and sentenced Jinnu to 20 years in prison. Since Jinnu gave up appealing to the Supreme Court (Supreme Court), the case Judgment decision.

However, according to the Korean media “Dong-A Ilbo”, South Korea’s Supreme Court (Supreme Court) tried yesterday (18th) the case of a 3-year-old girl in Gumi starving to death and abandoning her body. She was sentenced to 2 years for the crime of packing a box and hiding the body. Fixed-term imprisonment and probation for 3 years. However, for the crime of “swapping a baby girl”, it was finally determined that the evidence presented by the prosecution was insufficient, so Shi Fu was acquitted. As for the final whereabouts of the daughter born to the golden woman and the transfer process of the two baby girls, it may become an unsolved case that will never be solved.