Police in South Korea have requested an arrest warrant for a woman who stands accused of killing two of her newborn babies and storing their bodies in her freezer for an extended period.
According to officials from Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police, the woman, who is in her 30s, admitted to the killings, citing economic difficulties in caring for her three other children aged 12, 10, and 8 as the reason behind her actions.
Both newborns were reportedly only a day old when they died. The first child, her fourth, was born in a hospital in November 2018, and the woman allegedly strangled the baby the day after giving birth before preserving the body in her home’s freezer.
Similarly, her fifth child, a boy born in November 2019, suffered the same fate.
The woman’s husband claims he was unaware of the alleged murders, as he was informed that the two children had been aborted, according to police statements.
The case came to the attention of authorities in May after the government’s Board of Audit and Inspection discovered that the births of the infants had never been officially registered, despite hospital records confirming their births.
The board then notified Suwon City Hal, the municipal government, which requested a police investigation after the mother refused an on-site inspection.
On June 21, the police conducted a search and seizure operation in the woman’s home, during which she confessed to the murders, police say.
The woman is due to attend an arrest warrant hearing on Friday.