Overview
- The Seoul Central District Court jailed the hospital director for six years and ordered 1.15 billion won in restitution, and gave the operating surgeon four years.
- The mother, identified as Kwon, 26, received a three-year sentence suspended for five years with 200 hours of community service, and two brokers received suspended terms.
- The court found the doctors performed a caesarean at about 36 weeks, then covered the newborn and placed the infant in a freezer, causing death.
- Judges cited evidence of falsified medical records and a fabricated stillbirth certificate intended to disguise the killing.
- The case surfaced after Kwon posted a YouTube video, and investigators later described an organized, profit-driven setup for late-term terminations from 2022 to 2024.