<Anchor> A
two-year-old girl living in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, was brought to the hospital unconscious due to a brain hemorrhage that evening (the 8th), and traces that appear to have been abused in various places were found. The police arrested him urgently and applied for a warrant of arrest.
Reporter Lee Dae-wook covered it.
<Reporter> At
6 o'clock the day before, a parent visited the emergency room at a hospital in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, claiming that the child had lost consciousness.
The on-call doctor found wounds and bruises all over the body of a two-year-old A who had symptoms of cerebral hemorrhage.
The hospital reported suspicion of child abuse to the police, and Ms. A was transferred to a large hospital in Incheon to undergo 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, Mr. B, in his thirties, for serious injury under the Special Child Abuse Act.
Mr. B is said to have admitted to the allegations of abuse in the police investigation, saying, "I hit him a few times with his hand because he was whispering yesterday, and he did not wake up even though he fell asleep afterwards."
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.]
Ms. A is receiving treatment at the trauma intensive care unit after undergoing brain surgery.
It was confirmed that Mr. B and Mrs. 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 applied for an arrest warrant for Mr. B this morning.