Father who gave his 100-day-old daughter ”sleeping pill milk” and caused her death...8 years in prison = South Korea

A father in his 40s who left his 100-day-old daughter to drink milk mixed with a sleeping pill containing zolpidem and left her to die has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
According to the Korean Bar Association on the 20th, the Daejeon District Court ruled yesterday that a violation of the Special Act on Punishment of Child Abuse Crimes (Children
Defendant A (40), who was indicted on charges including ``abuse resulting in death'', was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was also ordered to complete a 40-hour child abuse treatment program and be restricted from working in a child-related agency for five years.
At around 10:23 p.m. on January 13 this year, defendant A took sleeping pills containing zolpidem while watching his 100-day-old daughter alone with his common-law wife. Mill with mixed water
He was charged with making alcoholic beverages and giving them alcohol. Defendant A, who had been suffering from insomnia, had been prescribed sleeping pills at the hospital and had brought them with him.
Then, after holding the child in a dangerous condition such as hypothermia, she dropped it on the floor.
It is understood that the child was abused, including injuring the child's head, and that the child died due to suffocation without taking appropriate measures.
Defendant A, who was wanted for fraud at the time, did not report the matter for fear of punishment.
He was later found not guilty of fraud. At the closing hearing held on the 21st of last month, the prosecutor said, ``The defendant gave his daughter, who was just over 100 days old, a drug containing zolpidem.
However, he denied the crime and showed no remorse, saying it was a mistake.''The crime was of a bad nature in light of the method of the crime,'' the court said, demanding a 10-year prison sentence.
In response, Defendant A said, ``The house was semi-basement, and it was dark even during the day, so he had left sleeping pills for himself to take.''
He denied the charges, saying, ``I accidentally gave him the water I had dissolved in the medicine.'' He denied the charges, saying, ``I did not intentionally give him the medicine.At that time, I also performed artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.''
The trial chamber stated, ``Considering the half-life of the drug, contrary to the defendant's claim that he gave the drug at 3 p.m., it seems likely that zolpidem was mixed in the evening.''
We cannot accept the defendant's argument that he made a mistake in trying to make milk in a hurry after returning from a trip."
"Even though he was vomiting and milk was coming out of his nose, I left him alone for over an hour until my wife got home." ``Although he claimed to have taken measures such as artificial respiration, these measures did not allow him to remain in serious condition.''
``I cannot accept the claim that the child was left alone for fear that it was not enough to recover from the child's death, and that the child was wanted,'' the statement continued.
The court held that