SEOUL – Jeong Ah-young, a child who had been comatose as a result of abuse since she was just days old, died on Wednesday at the age of three. Her organs were donated to four other infants. She died from a sudden cardiac arrest after having been on a respirator for over...
SEOUL – Jeong Ah-young, a child who had been comatose as a result of abuse since she was just days old, died on Wednesday at the age of three. Her organs were donated to four other infants.
She died from a sudden cardiac arrest after having been on a respirator for over three years. Ah-young had been in a coma after sustaining a head trauma in October 2019 at a nursery for infants in Dongrae-gu, eastern Busan. Ah-young was a victim of serial infant abuse by a nurse in her 30s, who abused 14 babies over 15 days from Oct 5, 2019.
She had violently handled babies, picking them up by one leg. She dropped Ah-young five days after she was born, causing her serious head injuries.Ah-young was declared brain dead after her cardiac arrest on Friday. Her family has decided to donate her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys to four other children of similar age.
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