A foreign woman who ran away leaving her 3-year-old daughter on the street was handed over to trial, but was acquitted.
Last August, a foreign woman in her 40s left her three-year-old daughter behind and ran away on the streets of Myeong-dong, Seoul, saying, "I'll come pick you up."
The child was handed over to the child welfare center within an hour after being reported by a passer-by, and Mr. A was handed over to trial for violating the Child Welfare Act.
Mr. A said that her common-law spouse, the biological father of her child, had spent her money on gambling, refusing to pay for her living expenses, and that she habitually assaulted her.
Mr. A, who had no income, raised her child with the help of her family, but last April, when her father collapsed from a brain hemorrhage and cut off her financial help, she eventually decided to abandon her daughter. I did.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced her to a fine of 5 million won and forced her to complete a treatment program for her child abuse.
While leaving her child alone in her alley was reprehensible, she explained that it was unjust for her defendant to be evicted and separated from her child.
She did not appeal even the prosecutor who asked for three years, so her judgment was finalized, and Mr. A was able to live with her daughter again.