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Next, let's look at the problems of child abuse that should disappear from our society. A 9-year-old child who died while being trapped in a suitcase was abused on Children's Day, which should be the most enjoyable on the 5th of last month. At that time, a report was filed with the police, but the child went back home and died less than a month later. However, as a result of our coverage, it was confirmed that at the time, the police only investigated the stepmother who had abused the child by phone, and the investigation was far from true.

Reporter Jeong Ban-seok was the sole reporter.

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A group of 9-year-olds in Cheonan who died in a travel bag for 7 hours.

A month earlier, on the 5th of last month, Group A injured his head to the hospital emergency room.

The medical staff saw a bruise on the hand and hip, and two days later, they filed a suspected child abuse with the police.

The police investigated the stepmother on the phone and recorded the results of the investigation.

This is a police investigation chart obtained by SBS, but something unusual is noticeable.

Although I did not investigate if I faced my child only by examining the phone to my stepmother and the hospital, I wrote that I could not see the underdevelopment and malnutrition of group A.

At the time of reporting, it was reported that the weight of group A was 22 kg, which was far less than that of children of his age.

All answered'no' to whether the living environment is dangerous, whether the child is afraid of their parents and whether there is a risk of abuse again.
They suggested that immediate medical treatment was necessary because of the apparent damage to the body, such as bruises, but the guidelines were not followed in the event of immediate protection.

The police admit that they haven't investigated the visit, but they are handed over to a specialized institution and there are no problems.

[Police officials: (Because of Corona 19) Avoid any visits or anything like this. Put it all off. I was still following those instructions. I continued to follow those guidelines.]

Since then, two counselors from a child welfare institution with less than three years of experience conducted a visit survey, but the evaluation was no different from the police.

They assessed the lack of growth or malnutrition as well as the inability to show fear or separation.

[Sinhyeonyoung / addition Democrats: Although you must by the dispatch as understand the site conditions and police are judging the situation by phone and miss the golden time ultimately will be judged as one of the causes that led to the death]

Eventually parents He admitted to corporal punishment and said that he was staying at home, and within a month, the child was trapped in a bag and died.

(Video coverage: Sang-Bo Jung, Min-Cheol Kim, Video editing: Ki-Deok Park, CG: Hyun-Jung Jung, courtesy of Shin-Young Shin)  

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