Korean Couple Receives Suspended Sentence for Abandoning Infants Due to Appearance

Couple who abandoned infants for 'looking like foreigners' gets suspended jail term

A Korean couple who abandoned two infants nearly two decades ago because they “looked like foreigners” received suspended prison sentences, according to legal circles Sunday. The Uijeongbu District Court sentenced the mother to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for violating the Child Welfare Act. Her husband was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for the same charge. According to the court, the woman gave birth to her first child in 2005 while living with

By The Korea Herald