South Korea’s infanticide problem highlights wider population struggles
in June inside a house freezer, their bodies apparently frozen for years. Their mother, a woman in her 30s, admitted to the police that she had killed her babies, born in 2018 and 2019, due to economic difficulties she was experiencing already taking care of three older children. Less than two weeks later, authoritiesin Gyeongsang province for allegedly murdering their five-day-old son and dumping his body in a nearby river.
The new measures are unlikely to deter people who may be in desperate situations, says Cho Hee-kyoung, a law professor at Hongik University in Seoul and columnist for thenewspaper. “No one who abandons a baby,” she tells TIME, “is thinking, ‘Oh, the penalty is only two years so I won’t be deterred.’ No one is now going to think, ‘Well, since the penalty has been increased, I’d better not do it.’”
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