A distraught man was filmed walking into a Taiwan police station carrying a bin bag containing the body of the baby daughter he killed 12 years ago.
Officers at the Sanmin First Precinct in south-western Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City said they were stunned when the father surnamed Lin, 43, turned himself in to officials.
He was carrying a black bin bag containing what he claimed was his month-old daughter who he accidentally killed in 2005.
Lin said he had lost his temper and unintentionally struck and killed his newborn daughter 12 years ago because she would not stop crying while being bottle-fed.
Officers at the Sanmin First Precinct in south-western Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City said they were stunned when the father surnamed Lin, 43, turned himself in to officials while carrying the corpse of his daughter
A woman (pictured center), who may have been his wife, was with Lin when he turned himself in to police at the station
The bag that Lin was carrying (pictured far left) was set on the ground as he spoke with officials
He told police that at the time, he ‘panicked’ and ‘didn’t know what to do,’ so he placed her body in the bin bag and hid it under his and his wife’s bed.
He then lied to his wife named Kuo, now 38, claiming that his mother had forcefully taken the child to raise on her own, and that he was unable to get their daughter back.
The pair had another daughter two years later – and are believed to have slept in the same bed right above their daughter’s rotting corpse for a further nine years until they finally divorced in 2013.
According to Lin, he became a migrant worker and started moving from place to place while always bringing his daughter’s corpse with him in the same black bin bag.
Sanmin First Precinct Chief Huang Yi-chang said the details of Lin’s case still remain vague and that police would continue to investigate before potentially announcing a manslaughter charge
He was filmed getting out of his car and walking into the police station carrying a black bin bag containing what he claimed was his month-old daughter who he accidentally killed in 2005
Lin said he had lost his temper and unintentionally struck and killed his newborn daughter 12 years ago because she would not stop crying while being bottle-fed. Pictured above, police investigate the bin bag brought in by Lin
The man said his guilty conscience, as well as recent news of other Taiwanese parents killing their children, gave him the courage to finally come forwards and turn himself in.
Sanmin First Precinct Chief Huang Yi-chang said the details of Lin’s case still remain vague and that police would continue to investigate before potentially announcing a manslaughter charge.
Huang noted that Lin’s firstborn had been classified as a missing person five years ago when she should have reached school age – aged seven in Taiwan – but was not listed at any local primary schools.
When the authorities investigated at the time, Kuo told the police that she did not know where her husband had taken their daughter.