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Another unfortunate thing happened 7 months after the incident occurred. A two-year-old girl from Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, was brought to the hospital yesterday (8th) evening, unconscious of a brain hemorrhage. Suspicious signs of abuse were found on the body. The police arrested my father urgently.
First, reporter Hong Young-jae.
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Yesterday at 6 o'clock, a parent holding a child appeared at a hospital in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do.
Parents visited the emergency room of a hospital in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, saying that the child suddenly lost consciousness.
It was a 2-year-old girl A, who was brought to the hospital.
The on-call doctor found wounds and bruises all over the body of A, showing symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage.
The hospital reported suspected child abuse to the police, and Ms. A was transferred to a large hospital in Incheon and had brain surgery.
[Tae-Seok Jeong/Professor Gachon University: When I visited the emergency room of our hospital, the consciousness at that time was semi-coma, so there was no consciousness... .] The
police arrested the child's father, B, in their 30s, on charges of serious injury under the Special Child Abuse Act.
In a police investigation, Mr. B was said to have admitted some of the charges of abuse, saying, "Yesterday morning, the child was whispering and hit him a few times with his hand.
However, the medical staff expressed the opinion that it is difficult to see it as a one-time abuse based on her developmental status or wounds on her whole body.
[Jeong Tae-seok/Professor of Gachon University: There were multiple bruises on the buttocks, all thighs, back, or on the face, neck, and ears. There were old bruises with different times. The child's nutritional status also seemed a bit poor.] It
was confirmed that Mr. B adopted Ms. A in August of last year.
After investigating the alleged child abuse against Mr. B and Mr. B's wife who were arrested, the police are planning to apply for an arrest warrant for Mr. B tomorrow.
(Video coverage: Myung-gu Kim and Hyun-cheol Yang, Editing video: Jong-Tae Kim, CG:
Jeong-
eun Kim)
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