Young mother gets suspended jail term for killing newborn

Young Mother Gets Suspended Jail Term For Killing Newborn

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By Jung Min-ho

A lady in her 20s has been given a suspended jail sentence for killing her new child.

The Cheongju District Courtroom on Sunday sentenced the younger mom to a few years in jail, suspended for 5 years, for suffocating the infant to demise after giving start by herself at an residence constructing in Chungju, a metropolis in North Chungcheong Province, on June 5, 2024.

The courtroom discovered that she dedicated the act after breaking apart along with her ex-boyfriend, the daddy of the kid. As an single single lady, she reportedly feared the results of showing the state of affairs to her household.

“It’s plain that oldsters can’t violate their youngsters’s proper to life,” the courtroom mentioned. “The sentence was decided after contemplating that the defendant dedicated it when she was in an unstable situation after giving start and that she admitted her wrongdoing throughout her six-month detention interval.”

Amid calls to strengthen penalties for killing infants, the Nationwide Meeting accepted a invoice in July 2023 to scrap the prison code of feticide, a cost that had drawn criticism for giving lenient sentences than homicide. This revision has come into power since February 2024.

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