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A 30-year-old mother has been arrested for allegedly leaving her 6-year-old son with an intellectual disability to death at home.
The Chungnam National Police Agency's Women's Juvenile Crime Investigation Unit announced today (11th) that her biological mother, A, was arrested on charges of child abuse and murder.
Mr. A is accused of causing her 6-year-old son, Gun B, to die because he did not properly care for her at his home in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do, and left the house for a considerable period of time without properly providing food.
Earlier, on the 8th, the police received a report from residents saying "the child seems to have died at home" and rushed to the scene and found group B dead in the residence of Mr. A.
At that time, there was no major trauma to the body of group B, but it is said that he was in a dwarfed state, such as weighing less than his peers.
Person A is known to have stated in the police investigation, "I was struggling financially and psychologically, leaving the child alone for over a week."
The police commissioned an autopsy of the body to the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to accurately determine the cause of death and the period of neglect.
A police official said, "We received the first oral opinion from the National Forensic Service that it was 'presumed to be of starvation'.
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