A stepmother who was handed over to trial for killing her 12-year-old stepson by beating her to bruises was sentenced to 17 years in prison in the first trial.
At the sentencing hearing held today (25th), the Incheon District Court sentenced a woman in her 40s, who was accused of child abuse and murder, to 17 years in prison by changing the crime to child abuse and manslaughter.
The judge said, “It is difficult to say that it has been acknowledged beyond a doubt that the defendant had intention to kill, even if it was unwritten.”
“The accused started the abuse for reasons스포츠토토 that were difficult to understand, such as the victim’s resemblance to her husband’s ex-wife or the cause of her miscarriage,” he said. As a result, anti-social and anti-humanity are high,” he explained the reason for the sentencing.
A man in his 40s, the father of the victim, who was also accused of habitual child abuse, was sentenced to three years in prison.
The mother of the deceased victim met with reporters after the trial and shed tears, saying, “It feels like my heart is collapsing and it’s so hard.”
Her biological mother said, “The child was imprisoned for a long time, tied up, not fed, and stabbed in the leg more than 200 times with a pencil. How can this not be intentional murder?” “The 17-year sentence makes no sense.” said.
Prosecutors requested the death penalty, the highest sentence in court, for stepmother Lee at a decision trial held on the 14th of last month.
Gye Mo-i was arrested and charged with repeatedly abusing and killing her 12-year-old stepson in an apartment in Namdong-gu, Incheon for 11 months from March last year.
Prosecutors investigated more than 50 abuses of her, and two days before her stepson’s death, she was blindfolded and tied to a chair for 16 hours.
Her husband, Mr. Lee, was also accused of abusing her son 15 times, including assaulting her son with a drum, from April 2021 to last January, and neglecting her wife while knowing about the abuse.
As a result of repeated abuse from her parents over a long period of time, the child’s weight, which was 38 kg when she was 10 years old, decreased to 29.5 kg on the day of her death, and bruises and wounds were found all over her body at the time of her death.
