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.
This is a stock image. The woman in this photo is not the mother in the article. (123RF)
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)
