A South Korean woman is facing murder charges after being accused of strangling to death her two newborns and hiding their bodies in a freezer.
Police said the young infants’ were killed one day after their births in November 2018 and 2019, after uncovering the horror find in the northwestern city of Suwon on Wednesday, reports The Daily Express US.
The 30-year-old mother-of-three was said to have stored them in plastic bags and allegedly told officers that she killed her two newborns because she couldn’t afford to look after them.
One of the newborns was killed in her home, while the other was killed near the hospital where she gave birth, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said.
The mom had allegedly told her husband that she had two abortions before the births, but through his lawyer, said he was unaware of the murders and apologised for not doing anything to prevent it from happening.
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He said: “I knew my wife was pregnant, but I didn’t know she had killed the babies. I trusted her when she told me she had an abortion.
“I am sorry for not protecting the babies. I suspected something was wrong when the police recently investigated my wife, but I didn’t think she had done something like this.
“I couldn’t protect the babies, and I think it is a crime that I didn’t know something like this happened. I am so sorry to the babies.”
However, he remains a suspect in the ongoing investigation. The couple, who have three other children aged 10 and 12, live in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, which is located in northwestern South Korea.
The case came to light during a wider investigation into missing children in the country.
Authorities were urged to investigate the many missing children in South Korea after it was revealed 2,000 babies born since 2015 remain unregistered.
Some abandoned babies have tragically been found in so-called “baby boxes”, which is a big problem facing the country and is linked to the high inequality and financial issues plaguing the country.
Just a one percent increase in the unemployment rate significantly raises the risk of infanticide in South Korea, research has shown.
