"If she had been alive, she would have started elementary school"… PD Lee Dong-won commemorates the 6th anniversary of the late Jeong-in's passing

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PD Lee Dong-won, who had disclosed the face of the late Jeong-in on broadcast after she died from abuse by her adoptive parents, commemorated the 6th anniversary of her death.

On the 13th, PD Lee posted a photo of Jeong-in's grave on his personal social media account, stating, "If she had been alive, she would have become an elementary school student. I often see small, cute children walking to school holding their mother's and father's hands on my morning commute, chatting away. Every time, I think of that child."

He continued, "If the child had been alive, she would have entered elementary school this year. Today is the 6th anniversary of her death. Fearing I might not be able to observe the anniversary, I took a brief moment earlier in the morning recently to visit the grave."

PD Lee expressed his condolences for Jeong-in by saying, "I once heard someone say that a person does not truly disappear from this world at the moment their heart stops, but only when they are forgotten by those who remembered them. That child has no family to remember her. With the hope that it will be remembered for a long time that the child lived briefly in this world, I leave these words again this year."

He added, "Even if you are busy, I would be grateful if you could take a moment today to pray for the child. May the child we failed to protect be freely happy in heaven. That child's name is Jeong-in."

Jeong-in died from abuse by her adoptive parents in October 2020 at 16 months of age. The following January, PD Lee aired episodes titled "Why Did Jeong-in Die? The Perpetrator and the Bystanders Over 271 Days" and "I'm Sorry, Jeong-in, And Where Our Anger Should Go," which revisited her unjust death and addressed the reality of child abuse. In the process, photos and videos showing Jeong-in's face were also disclosed.

In response, the civic group "Mothers Who Do Politics" reported PD Lee in October of that year for exposing Jeong-in's face and date of birth, among other reasons. The Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office issued a deferred prosecution order against him in June 2023 on charges of violating the Child Abuse Punishment Act (duty to prohibit reporting).

After more than two years of proceedings, the Constitutional Court canceled the deferred prosecution order imposed by the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office on PD Lee on the 18th last month, with a unanimous opinion from all justices.

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