Korean Court Upholds 30-Year Jail Sentence for Parents that Beat and Starved 8-Year Old to Death

I just can’t wrap my mind around how anyone could do this to an 8-year old kid. Also how did no one at the elementary school not realize what was going on?:

 An appellate court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s 30-year prison sentences for a couple in their 20s convicted of abusing and starving their 8-year-old daughter to death. 

The third-year elementary school child died at their home in Incheon, west of Seoul, in early March after suffering nearly three years of maltreatment and violence by her biological mother and stepfather, 28 and 27 years old, respectively. 

The case became known after the couple called for emergency help, saying their child was not breathing.

Rescuers dispatched to the scene found the child dead with many bruises on her body. Her weight was only 13 kilograms, nearly 10 kg less than those of her peers.

Yonhap

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