A 10-year-old girl who died after being entrusted to her aunt's house was found to have died due to the harsh abuse of her aunt couple, and the abuse may have occurred at least a week ago.



The aunt couple said that they had been abused by the police two days ago, and the police are investigating the facts.



A resident living in the same apartment line as Mr. B said, "I got off the elevator about a week ago, and I was about to enter the house, and in that house (Mr. B's house), a woman screamed as if being ill, and then I heard a girl crying." “At the time, I thought my child was just being scolded for the wrong thing…” I couldn't say.



On the 8th, when Ms. A died yesterday (on the 8th), they were arrested for child abuse by stating that they "have been lightly beaten a few times", and in a subsequent police investigation, "holding the hair and putting the child in and out of the bathtub filled with water. I did a few times, but the child did not breathe, so I called 119," he admitted to the abuse charges.



He said, "I couldn't listen to words very well and urinate, so I started to hold my hand a day or two ago," he said to the effect that the abuse did not last a long time.



However, if the yelling and crying heard by these residents is related to abuse, the abuse has been at least a week in advance or longer.



The police confirmed that Mr. B has three children, 12, 5, and 2 years old.



The 12-year-old, 5-year-old and 2-year-old children are staying in different relatives' homes, so it was determined that they are not living with Mr. B.



The police are expanding the investigation, leaving the possibility that Mr. B's own children also abused them.



However, it is said that the possibility of being abused by a 2-year-old child being left to a relative's house immediately after birth is low.



As a result of police investigation, Mr. B and Mrs. B, in addition to the abuse using water, struck Ms. A with plastic flaps and brooms, making their entire bodies full of bruises and wounds.



Then, when Ms. A, who had not endured their abuse and assault, did not breathe, she called 119 and falsely reported, "The child is in the bathtub and cannot breathe."



When paramedics and police arrived at the scene, there was no water left in the bathtub in question, so it is presumed that Mr. B and Mrs. B made a false report and discarded the water left in the bathtub.



It can be assumed that they tried to destroy the evidence by judging that evidence of their abuse may remain in the water.



The police are planning to apply for an arrest warrant for them today and continue their investigation into when the abuse of Ms. A began.



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