Further Details Behind the Murder of a 9-Year-Old Step-Son Emerge on “Kim Hyun Jung’s News Show”
The case of a step-mother who locked her step-son in a suitcase for 7 hours, ultimately leading to the 9-year-old boy’s death has been making headlines all over the country of Korea.
9-Year-Old Boy Passes Away After Being Locked up in a Suitcase for 7 Hours
And a recent broadcast of Kim Hyun Jung’s News Show dug deeper into the details behind the case.
According to CEO Gong Hye Jung of the Korean Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the step-mother’s biological child was the same age as the step-son who passed away.
But what surprised many viewers was the reveal that despite being the same age, her biological child weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) while the step-son only weighed 23 kilograms (51 pounds).
CEO Gong Hye Jung elaborated,
The average weight of a 9-year-old child is 32 kilograms (71 pounds). 23 kilograms is way too thin. Most child victims of abuse are underweight, and after working with such cases, I’ve been made to believe that food equals love.
– CEO Gong Hye Jung
CEO Gong Hye Jung also brought up the step-son’s biological father and questioned if he really wasn’t aware of the abuse.
The child was being brought up by his biological father and step-mother, but did the father really have no idea? They said he was away on a business trip, but I wonder how he could’ve been clueless when the boy suffered long-term abuse. Many people are curious about that.
– CEO Gong Hye Jung
She continued,
I haven’t spoken to them in person, so I don’t really know for certain, but there’s no way he was unaware of the long-term abuse. The biological fathers of the child abuse by step-mother cases in Ulsan and Chilgok were sentenced to 4 and 3 years in jail. A detailed investigation into the biological father is crucial.
– CEO Gong Hye Jung
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