The second trial court convicted a couple in their twenties who were accused of killing two of the three children who had not passed their first birthday, but were acquitted in the first trial.



The first criminal division of the Chuncheon Tribunal of the Seoul High Court broke the court sentence of one year and six months in prison for 27-year-old Hwang Mo, who was charged with murder today (3rd), and sentenced him to 23 years in prison.



His wife, 25-year-old Kwak Mo, who was accused of child abuse and fatality, also revoked the court ruling, sentenced to one year in prison and two years probation, sentenced to six years in prison, and arrested in court.



In addition, I ordered Hwang to attach a location tracking electronic anklet for 20 years.



The judge said, "The victims are the defendants' biological children who bear the legal obligations to raise and protect," and "The lives of victims who were killed by their fathers without living according to their will cannot be returned in any way, I can't compensate," he explained the reason for the sentence.



In September 2016, Mr. Hwang left his daughter, who was 5 months old, covered with a thick blanket and left her second daughter in a motel room in Wonju for a long time to die, and killed her third son two years later by strangulation in June 2019 when she was 9 months old. I was charged with the charges.



Kwak, his wife, was handed over to trial together on charges of not stopping her husband's actions.



However, when the first trial was found not guilty of murder, the prosecution changed the complaint by adding the charges of child abuse and lethality to Hwang at the appeal trial.



Meanwhile, as public opinion arose earlier last month that the adoptive parents who abused and killed Jeong-in, who was 16 months old, were to be severely punished, more than 400 petitions petitioned for the strict punishment came to the court of the Appeals Tribunal in the case of the three brothers and sisters in Wonju until this day.



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