SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police charged a man on Tuesday for the murder of his 2-year-old son after he confessed to suffocating the child so he could leave the house to go back to playing games at an Internet cafe.
On Sunday, police in the city of Taegu arrested the 22-year-old, identified only by his surname, Chung, after finding the body of his child in a suitcase wrapped in a trash bag near his home. Chung had earlier reported the boy missing.
The police initially believed the unemployed man had left his son to starve to death by abandoning him for 10 days while playing games.
Chung later confessed to “covering the child’s nose and mouth with his hand,” more than a month ago, killing him so that he could go to an Internet cafe, a police officer said.
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