By Lee Kyung-min
A six-month-old lapsed into a coma in a childcare center where he was taken two hours there after a doctor said he’s in a perfect health, the police in Masan, South Gyeongsang Province, said Tuesday.
He has been so for a month now.
The mother suspects abuse by the caregiver at the center.
On April 9, the mother took the baby to the hospital for a regular physical.
The doctor said that the baby was healthy and that she had nothing to worry about.
She left the hospital and took the baby to the childcare center as usual. It was around 10:00a.m.
Two hours later she got a call from the hospital that her baby was in coma.
Without anything concrete to allay the devastation, she spent a month.
The doctor recently pronounced that the baby had suffered from a Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).
It is known to be caused by intentional shaking, and the suffered baby shows no visible signs of trauma, making hard for their parents to notice the abuse done, the doctors said.
With the doctor’s diagnosis, the mother launched a petition.
The CCTV (closed-circuit television) in the elevator had footage of a caregiver holding the baby at 11:30.a.m.
The owner of the childcare center is now under investigation.
If the owner denies the allegations, the police said that they will resort to a lie detector.