Woman Tries To Commit Suicide After Killing Her Two Minor Children As Revenge On In-Laws

A woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her two minor children and attempting to commit suicide in order to make her in-laws suffer in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

The unnamed accused, a woman in her 40s, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by the 14th criminal division of the Seoul Southern District Court on Wednesday, July 20, for strangling and killing her two sons, who were both in elementary school at the time of their deaths, at her home in Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, South Korea. In addition to the 20-year prison sentence, the court also ordered a restriction of her employment in child-related organizations for ten years, Allkpop reported.

On April 5, at around 9:30 p.m., the accused woman reportedly suffocated her two sons, 8 and 7 years old, to death at their residence in Geumcheon-gu. After brutally killing her minor children, the woman also tried to take her own life. However, she was unsuccessful in pulling off the suicide. Following the incident, she confessed her crimes to her husband and turned herself in to the police.

"I committed the crimes thinking that my husband and in-laws would suffer if I and my children died," the accused revealed during the prosecution investigation.

The prosecution's probe revealed that the woman was living on an allowance provided by her husband and that she had raised her two sons by herself after parting with her former partner. However, her husband recently got fired from his company, and the woman was overcome with anxiety due to financial difficulties.

The court, after holding a decision trial this month in connection with the incident, finally came to a verdict and sentenced the woman to 20 years in prison for killing her two sons.

"It seems that the accused was going through financial difficulties and suffering from anxiety. However, those are not serious enough reasons to make such a horrible decision and her actions are unreasonable," the court stated.

When questions arose as to why the court didn't give her a harsher sentence, the court explained, "The court made the decision for the sentencing given that her husband and in-laws pleaded for her pardon, and that she would be living with guilt for the rest of her life."