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After giving birth in a public toilet, a mother in her 20s who abandoned her newborn baby without any action was handed over to the prosecution after 5 months.
Gangwon Goseong Police Station announced yesterday (4th) that it had sent a woman in her 20s without detention to the prosecution on charges of attempted infanticide.
A is accused of abandoning her newborn baby in a public toilet near Bongpo Beach, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do, on November 7 last year.
After a month of tracking by the police, she caught Mr. A, who lives in the metropolitan area, and a DNA test commissioned to confirm her biological mother confirmed her birth by Mr. A.
In the police investigation, Mr. A stated that she had no idea that she was pregnant at the time, saying, "I went on a trip with her friends and went to the bathroom because of a stomachache, and she had a baby."
It was confirmed that Mr. A mistook her bleeding for menstruation during her pregnancy or drank alcohol.
Her abandoned baby was discovered by a resident who went to use the bathroom at the time, and was immediately taken to the hospital and is being treated, but it is known that she suffered serious brain damage and has to live with her disability.
The police subsidized the cost of treatment for infants through the Crime Victim Protection Center.
Meanwhile, her biological mother, Mr. A, has revealed that she has no intention of raising her child.