A woman who brutally beat her four-month-old son and left him to die in a bathtub was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment in a child abuse case that stunned the nation.
The Suncheon branch of the Gwangju District Court ruled that the mother, in her 30s, had "cruelly" abused her child for half of his short life before ending it.
The woman was indicted for indiscriminately beating her son and leaving him in a running bathtub at their home in Yeosu, about 310 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 22. The infant died of multiple fractures and internal bleeding.
The court also sentenced the child's father to four years and six months in prison on charges of neglecting the abuse and threatening a witness in the case.
Related
