<Anchor> At the
beginning of this year, we reported on the news that a three-month-old baby was abused by his parents to the extent that his whole body was broken.
The court sentenced the real mother for abusing her child to jail.
Interest is focused on whether or not this mother will continue to recognize parental rights to her child.
Reporter Jeon Byeong-nam reports.
<Reporter> A
three-month-old child who was brought to the hospital with a broken bone all over her body.
There were fractures in 11 places including the skull, ribs, and shoulders, and a cerebral hemorrhage occurred.
Doctors strongly suspected child abuse, given that different bones were broken at different times and overlapped with malnutrition.
[Kisoo Bae/Professor at Ajou University Hospital (last January): It wasn't about a few weeks, but I was about to die.
When I visited the hospital, there were very few places where the whole body was not broken.]
His mother A, who denied the abuse, saying that he had a'unique constitution with broken bones', was eventually convicted of child abuse.
And the court sentenced the mother to three years in prison.
The court judged that "the crime is not very good given that it poses a serious risk to the life of the victim."
The father was also sentenced to 6 months in prison and 2 years probation.
Interest is focused on whether they will continue to recognize their legal rights as parents, parental rights.
The prosecution has claimed that parental authority should be deprived.
It is highly likely that the court will deprive the parent of the mother who has been sentenced to imprisonment, but the possibility of retaining the parental authority of the father sentenced to probation cannot be ruled out.
[Sookyung Shin/Attorney: I am thinking about how this will affect my child's future, and I hope the procedure will proceed.]
Now, it is said that the 23-month-old child is currently living in a long-term care facility and is in good health.
(Video editing: Kim Jong-woo)