On a weekend morning, a father and daughter are playing badminton in front of the apartment. The mother, who was nearby, watches over them with a smile. They seemed like an ordinary family, but they had a shocking secret. Today's keyword at the investigative institute is hidden child. Now, Attorney Yang, this incident happened 12 years ago, right? Yes, that's correct. Ah, it was a terrifying and shocking incident. It was in 2012. The incident began when a seven-year-old child who had enrolled in an elementary school in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do suddenly started missing school from April. So, they tried to contact the house, contacted the residents' center, sent official letters, but there was no response at all. So, after four years, I don't know why it took four years, but anyway, the education authorities reported it. So, the police officially began investigating, and they contacted the mother.

First, when I tried it, my mother said, Oh, I don't know either. The child ran away. And even the birth mother of the child said she didn't know the child's age well. These nonsensical answers came in. In the end, the situation was such that the police had no choice but to step in. They found the father and arrested him. He just said, I don't know much. I left home a few years ago and came to the house of a close middle school friend. So, they started searching the friend's house. But what came out of the friend's house was... Now, I really have to convey the accurate content from here. Inside these two bags were partial remains of a seven-year-old boy at the time. Mr. Choi, the father, actually said that in October 2012, his son fell in the bathroom, lost consciousness, and he didn't take him to the hospital at that time. But a month later,

I told them that he was dead. I never killed my son. I also claimed that my ex-husband damaged our son's body and stored it in the freezer while I briefly visited my parents' house. I said I didn't report it to the police because I was worried about being left alone with my daughter. They had been keeping their son's body in the freezer for about four years. Recently, when the ex-mother was urgently arrested, they moved the son's body to a friend of Jjimin Cheok Choi's house. It is said that they were caught. Even though the close relatives said, I didn't kill him. I didn't kill my son, the mother's words were different. According to the mother, the husband said, Punish the child a bit. Punish the child a bit. The husband was quite heavy because he exercised a lot and weighed 90kg, so he looked like a small child. At that time, Jay was seven years old.

He said he physically abused the child two or three times a week for about an hour each time. According to the stepfather, he also mentioned that he was hit a lot by his mother when he was young. Although he was hit, he claims he never went to the hospital. In the end, both the stepfather and the mother have stories of frequent punishment from their parents in their childhood. The child, who was seven years old, weighed 16kg. The average weight for a first-grade elementary school student in South Korea is 26kg, so this child was underweight by as much as 10kg. Now, Professor, I was hit a lot too, so I can hit my son to this extent as well. Is this what you call parenting? Not all children who are hit by their parents turn out like this, right? The police investigation revealed that the child did not die from falling in the bathroom as claimed, but was actually abused by the stepfather and left unattended, eventually leading to his death.

In early November 2012, it is said that stepfather Choi got drunk and physically abused a seven-year-old child at that time for two hours. So, the child was hit hard on the head and eventually suffered from abuse and starvation, lying in a state of shock. At that time, the child, who was seven years old, was in a state worse than the African starving children seen on TV, wandering around. So, are you saying that it was at a slightly better level than that? Therefore, in the case of stepfather Choi, fearing that his crime might be revealed, he let his son die as is and even put tape over the eyes of the dead child, claiming that the deceased child's eyes were not closing. Then, he mutilated his own child's body, put it in a trash bag, and disposed of it, or abandoned it in a public restroom near the house or at a civic center nearby, and then disposed of the remaining body.

They said they stored it in the freezer, but they can't tell the difference between saliva and the devil. The crimes of these couples were revealed four years later. Take a look at their appearance and admit it. Don't deny it. What do you think? Just say a word. Do you have any last words you want to say? Just say a word. I also looked into this case today as I was preparing for the broadcast, and I was so shocked to find out about this huge incident. I wonder why I didn't take it seriously. From now on, the content to be revealed is also very shocking. It is said that the couple purchased various tools to mutilate the body at a large supermarket after their son's death. In the meantime, they also bought kimbap, chewing gum, and snacks to eat. After mutilating their son's body, they put it in the freezer and bought a chicken at a regular chicken restaurant.

They said they ordered delivery and ate. Also, they said they boiled soybean paste stew all day to get rid of the smell of the corpse. They even brought their son's body when they moved to Incheon in 2013. According to neighbors, they seemed like very ordinary parents who loved their son. The neighbors said they didn't know they had a son, but the mother attended her daughter's school events well and always took the child with her when commuting, showing great care for her daughter. The neighbors also mentioned seeing Mr. Choi, the stepfather, playing badminton with the daughter frequently. Despite killing their son, the couple lived a seemingly ordinary family life. They boiled soybean paste stew all day to cover up the decaying smell of their son's body. These people are truly evil. Oh, it's really hard to tell this story. Even after being arrested, they still took care of their meals diligently.

He said he wants to become a Korean chef and run a restaurant after being released from prison. Even during the trial, he mentioned this to the court. The police couldn't understand him at all, so they conducted a psychopath test, which concluded that he was not a psychopath but a normal person. This was even more surprising to me. Anyway, the trial resulted in him being sentenced to 30 years in prison for usury and murder, and 20 years in prison for his mother. The parental rights of both individuals, for their daughter, were also revoked. Professor Jo, not to mention Yoo Young-cheol, said he became a very gentle lamb in front of his own child. I read in a book that Yoo Young-cheol, for instance, did not confess, so the police said they would bring his son to meet him face to face.

So, the alcohol burned smoothly, so in the case of these two people, as you mentioned earlier, we cannot compare them on a flat basis, but they are truly more like demons than Yoo Young-chul. How can they take the child they bore and kill them in that way, and then, what other cruel things can they do there? In the case of these two people, especially, I think this birth mother has maternal instincts, right? It's different from the father. So, at that time, how should she have dealt with her husband? How could she have been an accomplice in this way? When I look at these people for 30 years, 20 years, I wonder if they were too weak. Oh, it's truly a shocking incident. This incident needs to be organized like this in the incident research institute.

친자식 죽이고도 '태연한 일상'…평범한 가족이 아니었다 / JTBC 사건반장

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