Woman in her 20s sells newborn baby bought for 110,000 yen for 330,000 yen... sentence increased in second trial = South Korea

A woman in her 20s in South Korea who paid an unmarried mother to give her a newborn baby, then resold it to another woman two hours later, falsely claiming it was her own, has been given a heavier prison sentence on appeal.
On the 29th, the Incheon District Court Criminal Appeals Division 3 sentenced a baby broker, A (25, female), who was indicted on charges of child trafficking under the Child Welfare Act, to one year and two months in prison.
The court overturned the original ruling and sentenced A to one year and six months in prison. In August 2019, A received 3 million won (approximately 332,840 yen) from C, who wanted to adopt a child, at a coffee shop in Incheon.
A was arrested and indicted on suspicion of selling B's 6-day-old daughter and receiving 980,000 won (approximately 108,740 yen) in hospital expenses one hour and 30 minutes before the crime.
) on her behalf and received the newborn. She then handed the baby girl over to Mr. C, falsely claiming it was her own child, and in the process received 3 million won in hospital fees and postnatal care costs.
However, due to opposition from Mr. B, when Mr. C registered the birth of the girl, he was unable to claim her as his own, so he abandoned her in a baby box. The girl has now been adopted.
It was revealed that this was not A's first crime. A had used a similar method in July of the same year, paying 1.36 million won to receive a newborn baby, and then sold it to another woman for money.
The investigation revealed that he had a history of being sentenced to one year and two months in prison and given two years of probation by the Jeonju District Court in 2022 on suspicion of child trafficking.
The appeals court said, "A sent messages to people who had posted adoption notices on an internet bulletin board, and then
"She then pretended to be the baby's real mother and sold it for financial gain," the court said. It added, "The nature of her crime was not very good," and "the original sentence was too light."
The appeals court decided to impose the same punishment as the first trial on four people, including two women, including Ms. B (27), who sold the newborn to Ms. A, and Ms. C (57), who paid Ms. A to take over Ms. B's daughter.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.