Toddler dies from injuries three years after abuse in South Korean nursery; organs donated to four recipients


Jeong Ah-young was a victim of serial infant abuse by a nurse in her 30s. - PHOTO: KOREA ORGAN DONATION AGENCY

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): 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.

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