A woman in her 40s who was forced to hide her nine-year-old son's nine-year-old son in a luggage for seven hours was sent to prosecution today (10th).

A(43), who was arrested on charges of child abuse, went out of the detention center of Cheonan-dong Dongnam Police Station in Chungcheongnam-do at 1:30 pm and moved to the Cheonan Branch of Daejeon Prosecutors' Office.

Wearing a black hat and a mask, Mr. A climbed into the vehicle without answering the interviewer's head, with his head bowed to the question, "Did you know that a child might die?"

In a prosecution opinion, the police sent Mr. A to the prosecution along with the investigation documents.

Mr. A is accused of confining his third grade B group, who had lived together in a house in Seobuk-gu, Cheonan on the 1st, in a travel bag, causing him to die two days later.

Mr. A, who has lived with his father in Group B since January of last year, was found to have been imprisoned in Group B for more than 7 hours while changing bags, and even went out for 3 hours in the middle.

The results of the autopsy of the victim's body to reveal the correct cause have not been released.

The police will change the status of the father of group B from a reference person to a suspect and investigate whether or not he has been abused.

Group B was injured in hospital on the 5th of last month, Children's Day, and a medical team found abusive conditions in group A's body and called the police two days later.

In the investigation at that time, father B and Mr. A stated, "I have beaten my child four times since October." 

(Photo = Lee Eun-jung, Yonhap News)