The court rejected the appeal of a mother in her 50s who was sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her child with severe developmental disabilities and for making extreme choices.
The Suwon High Court explained the reason for the ruling, saying, "There is no change in the conditions of the sentencing to change the sentence of the original court."
A, who was suffering from financial difficulties as a patient with terminal thyroid cancer, suffocated and killed her 20-year-old daughter, who is severely developmentally disabled, at her home in Sincheon-dong, Siheung-si in March. .