<Anchor> In
addition to Sung-yeo Yoon, there is another family who has suffered too much damage from the public power in relation to the Lee Chun-jae case.
She lost her 8-year-old daughter by Lee Chun-jae in 1989, but the family of the victims could not know the truth for nearly 30 years as the police found the remains and hid them.
Reporter Ahn Hee-jae reports.
<Reporter>
I believed that my 8-year-old daughter, who disappeared 31 years ago, will definitely return.
[Kim Yong-bok/'Hwaseong Missing Elementary School Student' Father: (Every night) the door was not locked.
I don't know when it will come.
(Phone number) You can't change it, make flyers...
.]
However, the expectation was shattered by Lee Chun-jae's murder confession, and his wife, who had been struggling, died suddenly three months ago.
[Kim Yong-bok/'Hwaseong missing elementary school student' father: The police came and killed Lee Chun-jae...
At first I didn't believe it. (Wife) suddenly changed after hearing the news...
You live with a sense of guilt.]
Lee Chun-jae, who killed her daughter, was resentful, but the police couldn't forgive her when she found and hid her remains.
[Kim Yong-bok/'Hwaseong missing elementary school student' father: The police have completely buried it since then.
If I had only told you 30 years ago, I would say that my child died...
.]
Yoon Seong-yeo, who attended the retrial trial at the time, denied the charge of concealing the body, saying that it was "the first time".
[Kim Yong-bok/'Hwaseong missing elementary school student' father: It's a lie.
I have nothing to forgive.
Only the wrong people are apologizing right now.
No matter how much he was promoted, he would raise children too...
.] The
statute of limitations has passed and the punishment is not easy.
The bereaved family filed a lawsuit for damages against the country in March, hoping to know the truth, but the first trial has yet to be held.
[Lee Jeong-do / Survivor's lawyer: I submitted a formal answer in Korea.
(At the request for disclosure of investigative data) I disapproved of it because it is a personal information-related data, it is confidential under investigation.] My
father's last wish is to know where the young daughter was buried and why the police did not tell the truth.
[Kim Yong-bok/'Hwaseong Missing Elementary School Student' Father: I wish I had to tell the story that was openly and reveal the truth completely and be punished...
.]
(Video coverage: Choi Woong Choi, video editing: Hyunki Jang)