On October 13, 2020, a 16-month-old South Korean girl, Jeong In, was abused to death by her adoptive parents, and after the news spread, it aroused public outrage, and more than 200,000 South Koreans petitioned for Jeong In to severely punish Jeong In's adoptive parents.
The behavior of Jeong In's adoptive parents is outrageous, why Zheng Ren has had several chances of rescue, but why was it wasted by the South Korean police. Today, let's talk about the Case of Jeong In of South Korea.
Zheng Ren was born on June 10, 2019, just a few days after his birth, he was abandoned by his biological mother at the door of the church and sent to an adoption institution by well-wishers. In South Korea, a child is usually raised for a period of time before a child is officially adopted. Under the care of the foster mother, Zheng Ren loved to smile and lively during the growth process, and was very likable.
Zhang Xiaying, who came to the foster home to see the children, and her husband, An Sheng'en, were very satisfied with Zheng Ren. Zhang Xiaying already has a 4-year-old daughter, but she has always wanted to adopt a child and be with her daughter.
After review by the specialized agency, the conditions of the Ann San Grace couple met the adoption procedure. Both husband and wife have stable and well-paid jobs, Ann works in a TV station, and Zhang Xiaying is a translator who returns from studying abroad. When watching children in foster homes, they show a polite yet sincere side. In every way, they seem to be ideal adoptive parents.
In February 2020, the An couple adopted the 8-month-old Zheng Ren as they wished, and the two also took Zheng Ren on the show, showing special love for Zheng Ren on the show, but only 1 month after adopting Zheng Ren, Zhang Xiaying told her friends that she really could not cultivate feelings for Zheng Ren. Ms. Jang is reluctant to send her children back to the adoption agency, speculating that there may be two reasons, 1: coveting the monthly subsidy given by the South Korean government and 2: asking for face. It was she who went around telling her friends that she liked children and wanted to adopt them.
Since they did not want to send the child away, they were upset by watching the child all day, and gradually, the couple vented their anger by abusing the child.
Don't let Zheng Ren eat enough, only let her eat a little complementary food, only because she hates the smell of the child's stool, eat less to pull less.
Going out to party with friends, locking up a few months old Zheng Ren in a small black room at home, being questioned by friends, Zhang Xiaying said that she installed surveillance on her mobile phone, but friends clearly saw that the surveillance was dark and nothing could be seen;
Beaten with sticks, pinched with fingernails, kicked with feet, etc., Zheng Ren had many bruises on his body, but he was described by his adoptive father as Mongolian spots.
During Zheng Ren's adoption, he had three chances to be rescued, but they were missed because of the negligence of the police.
The first time was in May 2020, when The teacher at Zheng Ren's nursery school observed that Zheng Ren had bruises on her thighs, and Zheng Ren's adoptive mother confronted the teacher's inquiry and claimed that the bruises on Zheng Ren's legs were caused by her adoptive father massaging her. Prior to this, the nursery teacher had found that the child had scars on his face and behind his ears. Suspicious of Jeong-jin's adoptive parents, the nursery teacher called the police, but the police told the nursery teacher that it did not reach the level of fractures and tears and could not be called abuse.
The second time she called the police was in June, zhang Xiaying's friends believed that Zhang was suspected of abusing Zheng Ren, and she saw Zheng Ren locked in the car many times. The police had no substantial evidence and eventually made a hasty decision.
The last alarm was on September 23. On this day, Zheng Ren, who had not come to the nursery for a long time, was sent by his adoptive mother. The nursery teacher was shocked to see Zheng Ren's appearance, only to see that Zheng Ren was so thin that he was only skinny and bone-covered, his spirit was very weak, and he did not have the strength to speak.
The teacher took Zheng Ren to the hospital for examination, the doctor concluded that the child was malnourished for a long time, and even difficult to support his body to walk independently, after calling the police, the police asked Zheng Ren's adoptive parents again what was going on, Zheng Ren's father slyly argued that the child had recently had oral inflammation, and usually had picky eating problems, so he would lose weight. Zheng Ren's adoptive father went to another pediatric hospital and asked his old acquaintance to issue a diagnosis certificate, and the child had a problem with oral inflammation, but it could not prove that the child had been abused. After Zheng Ren's death, everyone learned that the child often became inflamed because the adoptive mother poured hot food directly into her mouth, or fed the child chili sauce to cause the child's mouth to fester.
The police once again accepted the words of Zheng Ren's adoptive father, and Zheng Ren's suffering continued.
October 12th, Zheng Ren's last day in the nursery. The teachers noticed that Zheng Ren's condition was worse than before, and she sat in the corner of the classroom listlessly. Give her something to eat, and she won't be able to eat it either.
The teacher wanted Zheng Ren to get up and walk around, but Zheng Ren could not exert his strength and was weak like a kitten. The teacher took Zheng Ren in his arms and checked if there were any wounds on her body. Zheng Ren's belly was bulging, which was in sharp contrast to her extremely thin posture.
According to the analysis of the autopsy sheet after Zheng Ren's death, the day before Zheng Ren's death, that is, in the nursery, there were already symptoms of intestinal rupture in the abdomen, and the pain of intestinal rupture causing air to leak out was the most painful of all pain. Because there is too much inflammation in the stomach, the child cannot eat, and the more he eats, the more painful it is, which is the real reason why Zheng Ren is reluctant to eat in the nursery.
The child will cry when he feels the pain, and Zheng Ren is quiet and numb when he stays in the arms of the teacher. As a long-term abused child, she has lost her normal emotional response, which is medically known as emotional stripping. For Zheng Ren, the embrace of the teacher is the little warmth she can feel.
At 5 p.m. on the same day, Zheng Ren's adoptive father, An Sheng'en, came to the nursery to pick up the child, knowing that Zheng Ren's physical condition was already very poor, but he signaled the child to come to him. Zheng Ren, who had not walked for a day, actually took a shaky step at this time and walked towards his adoptive father. From the surveillance video of the nursery, you can see that the child's body is trembling when she walks, and the pain she has endured has reached the extreme.
If it were not for the fact that his adoptive father was very cruel to Zheng Ren at home, a young child would never have been able to be so obedient. Fearing that his adoptive father would scold him, Zheng Ren's orders to his adoptive father had formed a conditioned reflex.
The teacher did not trust Zheng Ren, and before An Sheng'en took Zheng Ren away, he instructed him to take the child to the hospital to see. If he had gone to the hospital that afternoon, the child would still have a chance to be rescued, but if he had raised his parents so fiercely, he would never have given Zheng Ren a way to live.
At about 9:40 a.m. on October 13, the downstairs neighbors heard the sound of heavy objects hitting the floor from Zhang Xiaying's house.
The neighbor went upstairs to reflect the problem, Zhang Xiaying apologized, and the voice disappeared. At 9:54, Zhang Xiaying sent a message to her husband: "Or make a show and take her to the hospital to see." From Zhang Xiaying's information, it can be seen that Zheng Ren's situation is already very critical at this time.
Since it was a show, Zhang Xiaying was not in a hurry at all. She first put on a delicate makeup, then sent her eldest daughter to kindergarten, dragged until 10:40, and then found a taxi to take the unconscious Zheng Ren to the hospital. The taxi driver looked at the child's situation and wondered why Zhang Xiaying did not call an ambulance, so that he could rescue him in the car.
He didn't know that the common sense of human nature wouldn't work here in Zhang Xiaying.
After arriving at the hospital, the doctor found twelve fractures on Zheng Ren's body, a ruptured pancreas and intestinal membrane, and a stomach full of blood. After examination, there was no good place on Zheng Ren's body, and such a tragic degree was described by doctors as "can become textbook-level abuse." When the child was first sent, the doctor knew that the child had suffered inhuman treatment, but Zhang Xiaying was still performing by herself, she knelt on the ground and cried: "If my child dies, what should I do?"
If people passing by saw this scene, they must think that it was a poor mother.
Zheng Ren had three cardiac arrests during the rescue process, and the rescue was ultimately ineffective, ending his 16-month life. During Zheng Ren's surgery, Zhang Xiaying, who was waiting outside, was busy buying fish cakes on her mobile phone.
Zheng Ren's cause of death was a ruptured pancreas. If it is an adult, how to cause the pancreas to rupture, there are expert analysis, probably equivalent to professional boxers fiercely aimed at the opponent's abdomen, again and again. Experts judged through the autopsy report that on the day of Zheng Ren's death, he had been brutally punched and kicked. After the child lay on the ground dying, Zhang Xiaying stepped on the child's soft abdomen again and again in a bouncing manner from the sofa, repeatedly crushing, which would cause Zheng Ren's pancreas to rupture. This is why the downstairs neighbor heard an unknown noise.
After the child died, she was buried in a free park cemetery in the form of a tree burial, and her adoptive parents only spent 10 yuan to buy a picture frame frame, and after burying the child, she never went to the park to see Zheng Ren again.
Adoptive parents were indicted for child abuse, but the two denied what they had done. Zhang Xiaying slyly argued that when Zheng Ren and his sister were playing, he accidentally fell off the sofa, and An Sheng'en also found a reporter and tried to excuse his wife.
The so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, seeing that the matter is impossible to hide, Zhang Xiaying's mother told reporters that her daughter has mental problems and hopes that the court can give a light sentence.
People who commit crimes want to use mental illness as a gold medal to avoid death, but Zhang Xiaying's spirit is very normal, and her abuse of children is deliberate, even undisguised, and she has beaten children in front of friends.
After the case was exposed, the people were indignant. South Koreans are particularly outraged by the negligence of child protection agencies and the police.
In a way, they became accomplices to Zheng Ren's adoptive parents. The local child protection agency is still shouting for itself, saying that she obviously calls often and sends messages to zheng ren's adoptive parents, but three times they call the police, they know that the wounds on the child's body are suspicious, but they turn a blind eye.
According to reports, there are more than 800 videos of abuse in his adoptive father's mobile phone, and Zheng Ren's adoptive father must have been involved in the abuse of the child in normal times, otherwise Zheng Ren would not be so afraid of him, but his crime was only the crime of harboring.
On May 14, 2021, a South Korean court pronounced a first-instance judgment on the "Jeong In case", sentencing Jeong In's adoptive mother Zhang Xiaying to life imprisonment and adoptive father An Sheng'en to five years in prison. Zhang Xiaying was not satisfied and filed an appeal.
On November 26, 2021, a South Korean court pronounced a second-instance judgment, commuting Jeong In's adoptive mother, Jang Ha-young, from life imprisonment in the first instance to 35 years in prison.
A large number of people gathered outside the courthouse wept bitterly because they could not accept Zhang Xiaying's commutation.
Hell is empty, and demons are on earth.