{"id":27160,"date":"2021-01-21T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/south-korea-gripped-by-trial-of-16-month-old-jeong-ins-alleged-killer"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:27:34","slug":"south-korea-gripped-by-trial-of-16-month-old-jeong-ins-alleged-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27160","title":{"rendered":"South Korea gripped by trial of 16-month-old Jeong-in&#8217;s alleged killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for tougher child protection laws intensify as toddler\u2019s adoptive mother faces court in Seoul<\/p>\n<p>The video clip shows a healthy, happy child smiling from ear to ear, her milk teeth gnawing at a pink fluffy toy. Within months all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> would know her name: Jeong-in.<\/p>\n<p>It has taken the death of a 16-month-old, allegedly at the hands of her adoptive mother, to jolt South Korea\u2019s government into what campaigners say is long-overdue action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/childprotection\">protect the most vulnerable children<\/a>, amid a dramatic rise in reported abuse cases over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/south-korea-gripped-by-trial-of-16-month-old-jeong-ins-alleged-killer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for tougher child protection laws intensify as toddler\u2019s adoptive mother faces court in SeoulThe video clip shows a healthy, happy child smiling from ear to ear, her milk teeth gnawing at a pink fluffy toy. Within months all of South Korea would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27161,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27160\/revisions\/27161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}