Thanks to the interest of the neighbors, we were able to find abandoned babies in the refrigerator.

The baby found as a body in a refrigerator in a home in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do is believed to have died around October 2018. The baby was born in August 2018 and fortunately the baby’s sister, who was the sister of fraternal twins, She is alive.

The children’s mother, A, 42, did not report the birth of twins. The twins were children who did not exist in the registry. The older brother of the brothers and sisters (8) was in school.

The fact that the existence of a baby who was almost buried in this way was revealed was determined by the interest and information of the residents.

# Neighbors report: ‘I suspect a child has no food’

About the 6th of last month, Resident B informed Yeosu City that he was suspected of having a bad smell and lack of food at A’s home. Yeosu City interviewed Mr. A during the first visit on the 10th, He encouraged him to request emergency assistance and then visited him again the same day, but was unable to meet anyone.

# City of Yeosu, request an investigation from a specialized child protection agency

The next day (11), Yeosu City contacted the school to check the school status of the first child and found that there was no problem. However, through an investigation of the surrounding information, it was determined that Mr. A neglected the children and requested an investigation from a specialized child protection agency.

A child protection agency and Yeosu city officials interviewed Mr. A on the 13th, but it is known that Mr. A did not reveal the interior of the residence and said that his daughter is the daughter of an acquaintance.

On this day, Mr. A promised to visit the city office on the 17th for wellness counseling, etc., but Mr. A did not attend the appointment, and the office called his mother and made an appointment to return. to visit on 20.

In this process, the Jeonnam Child Protection Agency, which received a request from Yeosu City to investigate child abuse, etc., confirmed the bad parenting environment and the fact that the twins’ birth report was not has reported on the 20th, as a bad parenting environment, as a bad smell from leaving the garbage inside the house. He filed a complaint with the police for violating the Child Welfare Law.

In addition, the two children were separated to take protective measures at the shelter, and on the 23rd they began professional counseling on abusers.

# The presence of a baby in the garbage heap that nobody knew about

On the 25th, the municipal office also collected 5 tons of garbage from Mr. A’s house, but no one knew of the existence of a baby until then.

The next day, a resident report on the 26th suspected the existence of twins, and on the 27th, the body of a refrigerator was found in a field investigation by the Yeosu Police Station.

Police arrested the mother of baby A (42) on charges of child abuse, neglect and abandonment of the body, and are investigating the process of death and abandonment of the baby. The first autopsy of the gukko tree revealed that there were no signs of blows to the body.