Comments on: DNA results on French freezer babies’ mom expected tomorrow Wife mother of dead infants UPDATED

By: dda

dda — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:05:39 +0000

In the meantime, this case has finally made the French news. Here’s a translation of the first article I saw on the subject.

By: TheBDF

TheBDF — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:46:18 +0000

I can’t relate this to the French attack on Kanghwa Island and the recent return of national treasures, can I????

Frozen dead babies are rarely considered national treasures.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:41:54 +0000

I can’t relate this to the French attack on Kanghwa Island and the recent return of national treasures, can I????

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:38:10 +0000

I guess I am kind of at a loss how to process the case too. I mean - no GIs, taxis, ESL instructors, nothing…….I have no background information from which to process this…….The guy wasn’t even Russian……

By: cm

cm — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:04:48 +0000

“WTH? The babies were moved? Or did they know the prior resident of the place there in now and the babies were always in that location?”

The place where the babies were found, the French occupants first moved in about a year ago. So yes, the babies were transported from somewhere else. Ghoulish.

By: Zonath

Zonath — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:23:07 +0000

So when we ask Mrs C why she froze the dead fetuses she breaks down and says she couldn’t, and didn’t want to, face losing them…..something like that. Is that a crime? I don’t know. If that’s the case I wouldn’t punish her.

In lots of places, failure to report a death and failure to properly dispose of human remains are both crimes. Of course, both of those are pretty much misdemeanors when they are crimes. On the other hand, I’m not sure how miscarriages and stillbirths are treated. Heck, in some places, storing the remains of a miscarriage in your freezer might be nothing more than a health code violation. However, I’m willing to bet that a fully-formed, stillborn fetus would be treated slightly differently, and would probably be back into the ‘human remains’ category. And at that, I have no idea of what the laws are like in South Korea on this one.

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:41:35 +0000

What if Mrs. C was psychologially traumatized by a miscarriage at home and for some unknown reason decided to freeze the babies? Is she guilty of something? She didn’t kill the babies. Perhaps the husband didn’t know about the pregnancy or the miscarriage.
So when we ask Mrs C why she froze the dead fetuses she breaks down and says she couldn’t, and didn’t want to, face losing them…..something like that. Is that a crime? I don’t know. If that’s the case I wouldn’t punish her.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:08:30 +0000

“of what” would be a fascinating question…

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:07:55 +0000

Motives and logic and thinking aside, if the DNA tests hold up, and I’m on the jury, 2 people are convicted….

By: hardyandtiny

hardyandtiny — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:49:32 +0000

“….Prior to moving into his current residence in Banpo-dong in August of last year, he’d lived for three years in a villa apartment in Bangbae-dong….”

“….According to the Korean news, the babies were dead for 2 years and 7 months….”

WTH? The babies were moved? Or did they know the prior resident of the place there in now and the babies were always in that location?