Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Nationwide Investigation Workplace of the Korean Nationwide Police Company is investigating 193 circumstances ghost kids or a ghost child. Ghost kids known as the beginning of a child who has by no means been registered with the native authorities.
The issue is, these infants should not solely not registered within the civil registry, however a few of them have mysteriously died.
Launch Korea Heraldpolice has acquired 209 experiences of unregistered infants till Tuesday (4/7/2023). From a complete of 209 circumstances, 11 unregistered infants have been discovered lifeless.
The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police are at the moment investigating 4 of those 11 suspicious deaths. Police added that they have been dashing up their investigation to seek out one other 178 anonymous newborns.
The start of the ‘ghost child’ case in Korea
This ‘ghost child’ case got here to gentle after many homicide circumstances involving undocumented infants.
Late final month, two infants have been discovered lifeless in a fridge at a residence in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. The mom was arrested for infanticide and later referred to prosecutors on expenses of homicide and hiding the physique.
Whereas Suwon’s case remains to be underneath investigation, one other unregistered child boy was discovered lifeless and buried in Geoje, South Gyeongsang Province, in the identical interval.
A lady in her 20s was additionally arrested for letting her child starve to demise.
In one other case, a lady in her 20s dwelling in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, was detained by police on suspicion of handing over her new child child to an unknown particular person she met by social media after giving beginning in December 2021.
The Busan Metropolitan Police mentioned they have been investigating a lady for allegedly leaving her child within the hills round her dwelling after giving beginning in February 2015. Nevertheless, the girl was not charged underneath the statute of limitations of seven years for the crime.
In the meantime, a June report issued by the Board of Audit and Inspection discovered that not less than 2,236 newborns born in medical establishments have been unregistered from 2015 to 2022.
In response to guidelines in South Korea, solely dad and mom are required to register their kid’s beginning with the federal government inside one month after beginning.
However not too long ago, the Nationwide Meeting handed a revision to the Legislation on Registration of Household Relations which required employees in medical establishments to report newborns to native governments inside 14 days of beginning.
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