A mother who threw her four-month-old baby out of a window “in a fit of rage,” resulting in his death, was given three years in prison with four years’ stay of execution on Thursday.
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The Daegu court decided that although the mother’s actions were demeaning to the value of life, it had to be taken into consideration that she had suffered from extreme post-labor depression and would live with the guilt for the rest of her life.
The woman, in her 20s, threw her baby from a 7-meter high apartment when her mother – the baby’s maternal grandmother – had left the room to heat up a bath.
She later testified to the police, “I was sleep-deprived and stressed because the baby cried throughout the night. I was in a fit of an anger.”
By Lim Jeong-yeo (
kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)
