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Abusive murder of uncle and nephew in Yongin, South Korea, 2021

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 On February 8, 2021, an incident occurred in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, where an 8-year-old girl died as a result of abuse by her aunt and uncle. The victim's biological mother divorced her husband and left her daughter (the victim) in the care of her aunt and her husband, who lived in their apartment in Gorim-dong, Chaein-gu, since around December 2020. However, the couple extremely abused the victim in their care. After brutally assaulting the victim with blunt objects such as fly swatters and brooms because she was possessed (the couple were shamans), unable to cover her feces, or mumbling unintelligible words, the perpetrators tortured the victim, who had fractured ribs and was unable to move, by restraining her with clotheslines, a furoshiki, and plastic bags, filling a bathtub with water, forcibly submerging the victim's head in the water and pulling it out for approximately 50 minutes. Some of the assault tools seized at the scene were beyond the pale. It was an object made l...