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On the 14th, around 11:20 a.m., firefighters who entered a house on the second floor of a village in Yonghyeon-dong, Michuhol-gu, Incheon, filled with smoke from a fire, found a brother who had fallen in your room. One child was bedridden and the other was crouched under the desk. Under the desk, there were blankets everywhere, as if someone was trying to keep the child out of the flames.
Both children were unconscious at the time of discovery. Brother A (10), who was found in bed, suffered a severe third degree burn to his upper body and burned 40% of his body. However, his younger brother, B (8), who had been blocked with a blanket under his desk, only suffered a first degree burn to his leg. The firefighter who discovered the brother for the first time said: “It seems that the brother pushed his brother under the desk to save him until the last minute and hit a defensive wall around him with a blanket.” The brother is unconscious until the third day of the fire, the 17th. The elementary school fourth grader has severe burns, so the younger brother is not badly burned, but he has been drinking a lot of smoke and is not conscious.
On the 14th at 11:10 am on the 14th, elementary school siblings accidentally lit a fire while preparing ramen to eat in a house without a mother. On the morning of that day, the 119 information center said, “Please save! here it is … A report was received called “Kek Kek”. The situation was so urgent that they hung up the phone without being able to call all directions. The fire brigade that was dispatched put out the fire in about 10 minutes, but the two children were found unconscious.
In short, the two brothers have been warned on several occasions over the past two years, but they have not been adequately cared for by their network of protection for mother and child. Group A was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in May 2018. On the 17th, Michuholgu, a children’s administrator from Dream Start’s Business Department, which helps children in difficult circumstances, said: “The siblings in Group A were unable to attend kindergarten and never used the care class after entering elementary school. He said, “I got the opinion from the school that there was a problem with the development of social skills.”
It is known that the reason the siblings could not use the care class properly was because mother C (30) said: “I will take care of the children.” Dream Start provided psychological counseling and play therapy for Group A siblings from August 2018 to May 2019. Dream Start said: “I had a clear feeling of depression from my brother so I needed counseling treatment.” However, her mother, C, rejected Dream Start’s recommendation to send her brother to the children’s center. A ward official said that after insisting on babysitting at home, he was not even properly contacted. The official said: “Because the Dream Start project is not mandatory, there is no way to apply if parents do not want to,” he said, “institutional improvement is necessary.” Attention class was held even during remote non-face class due to corona, but Mr. C never showed up. Lee Sang-hoon, a spokesperson for the Incheon Metropolitan Bureau of Education, said: “Even if it doesn’t apply, you can use the care class if you send it to school, but it seems the parents didn’t allow it. Even as a school, it can’t be helped. “
Safety nets to protect children were powerless. It was clear that the brother was abused by his mother, but it did not improve. According to the police and the city of Incheon, residents reported their mother C three times from 2018 to this year to the Incheon Child Protection Agency for child abuse and neglect. The first report was received on September 16, 2018, two years ago, and the Incheon City Child Protection Agency ordered to improve the environment, such as cleaning the house. However, the situation did not improve after that, and the third report was received on May 12, after the second report on September 24 of last year.
The specialized child protection agency confirmed that there were suspicions that Mr. A had committed acts of violence against children, such as hand scrapes, and that there were often cases of leaving only children and leaving the house, and asked the police investigating the neglect abuse case. On May 29, the Incheon Family Court requested an order to quarantine and protect the mother and brother. However, on the 27th of last month, the court ruled that psychological counseling is more desirable than quarantine. Accordingly, Mr. C was scheduled to receive a consultation with a professional institution once a week for 6 months, and the siblings in Group A were scheduled to receive a consultation for 12 months, but the first consultation has yet to take place. made due to the crown crisis. Police reported that Mother C was accused of neglecting and abusing Group A siblings, and that late last month, C was arrested for violating the Child Welfare Act.
On the 14th, the day of the fire, mother C claimed to have “gone out the day before and stayed at the home of an acquaintance” in an investigation by the fire authorities. The brother is in the burn intensive care unit of a Seoul hospital. Mr. C did not show up at the hospital until the afternoon of the 17th. That afternoon, only C’s younger brother came to visit the siblings. Mr. C’s younger brother said: “It is difficult to talk to her because her sister is very surprised. It is not true that her sister said that she did not know me.”
Meanwhile, consultations also continue on the support of the brothers of Army A. According to the Haksan Nanum Foundation, etc., which is in charge of sponsoring, the calls for donations to the brothers have continued since the afternoon of the 16th when it became known. the incident. The foundation plans to receive a “designated deposit” on behalf of the siblings in group A, where donors can deposit designating the purpose of the donation.
The Yonghyeon-dong Administrative Welfare Center and the Michuhol Fire Station, where the brothers reside, are also receiving calls asking if there is any way to help the children. An official from the Administrative Welfare Center said: “It was lazy after the article about the mother was published, but there are still a lot of people asking for ways to help the children.” Furthermore, the Incheon Fire Department also decided to provide 5 million won for medical treatment to the siblings in Group A with a donation of 119 won for the miracle.
