A foreign woman who ran away leaving her 3-year-old daughter on the street was handed over to trial but was given leniency.



Last August, A, a foreign woman in her 40s, left her 3-year-old daughter behind and ran away on the streets of Myeong-dong, Seoul, after leaving the words 'I'm coming to pick you up'.



The child was handed over to the child welfare center within an hour after a passer-by reported it, 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. she did



The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Mr. A to a fine of 5 million won and ordered 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.