President Moon Jae-in is giving a commemorative address at the 75th anniversary of the Police Day held at the Police Human Resources Development Institute in Asan City, Chungcheongnam-do on December 21 of last year. [청와대사진기자단]
– “By organizing a child abuse inspection team with related organizations, we identified at-risk children who were in the blind spot of care and focused on 8500 children at risk of re-abuse.”
This is a remark made by President Moon Jae-in at a ceremony for the police day on October 21 last year. On that day, President Moon praised the police’s achievements in discovering children at risk of abuse, saying, “The police made an uninterrupted effort to reform themselves this year.” This was the 8th day after the death of 16-month-old adopted child Jeong In-yang (October 13, 2020), who died from the abuse of her adoptive parents.
President Moon and Jung In were condemned by the police 8 days after the death
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On the afternoon of the 6th, mourners continue to visit the grave of Jeong In-yang, which was buried in the graveyard of High Family Andersen Park in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province. Reporter Jang Jin-young
– Last year, the government conducted a major special inspection saying it will eradicate child abuse. A’special investigation period for the discovery of re-abuse’ was also operated, but Jung In-yang’s subsequent reports of suspicion of abuse were dismissed during that period. Jung In-yang was excluded from the government’s inspection, and controversy about the police’s insolvent response immediately after Jung In-yang’s death was waning. The fact that President Moon praised the police’s hard work in eradicating child abuse at that time clearly shows the current status of the government’s response to the child abuse problem.
It was not without the hard work of the government and the police. In June of last year, the government announced the’Special Inspection Plan for Child Abuse’ as a follow-up measure when child abuse cases occurred in Cheonan, Chungnam and Changnyeong, Gyeongnam. At the time, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “We will focus all our capabilities on discovering children at risk of abuse. We will also operate a’special investigation period for discovery of re-abuse’ to eradicate the occurrence of re-abuse.”
To this end, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the police teamed up with an inspection team with related organizations to look into existing cases of child abuse reports again to check whether child abuse occurred again for five months from June last year. In order to select the targets, ▶ Cases of physical abuse by medical staff report ▶ Report of re-abuse twice or more ▶ By setting standards such as high-risk families of domestic violence, about 8,500 cases of child abuse reports were reconfirmed.
Government joint inspection, Jeongin missed
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In June of last year, the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced a special inspection plan to eradicate early detection of children at risk of abuse and re-abuse.
– However, even during the government’s special investigation, no abuse of Jeong In-yi was found. According to data obtained by Lee Jong-sung’s Office of the People’s Power of the National Assembly’s Health and Welfare Committee, Jeong In-i was not included in all subjects in the first, second, and third joint government inspections.
The first joint government inspection, which started on June 11 of last year, selected cases in which’reports more than once in the last three years’ were received until May of that year. Jung In’s second report was last June. Moreover, in Jung In’s second report, the police decided that there was no suspicion of child abuse because of insufficient evidence. Therefore, Jung In-i was not classified as a’re-abuse case’ even in the full child abuse test that was conducted later. The government’s special inspection for re-abuse until November did not find Jeong In-i. Meanwhile, on October 13, Jung In-i died while undergoing treatment in the emergency room of a hospital in Mok-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul.
Controversy over disregarding police reports before the president’s speech
– Immediately after Jung In-yang’s death, it was revealed that the police closed the case even after receiving reports of suspected abuse three times, and it was widely reported in the media (October 15-16). It was a few days before President Moon Jae-in gave a commemorative remark (21st) at the ’75th Anniversary Police Day Commemoration Ceremony’ held at the Police Human Resources Development Center in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do. President Moon commended the efforts of the police for intensive inspection of 8,500 children at risk of enrollment at that time.
Rep. Lee Jong-seong said, “The joint inspection in which all relevant organizations participated in the effort to eradicate child abuse was useless. Administrative convenience and formal handling were rampant.”
Reporter Garam Lee [email protected]
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