{
  "id": 3474462,
  "title": "교회가 집이었던 학대 사망 11살 어린이…복지수당 1123만원은 엄마가 수령",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/11-1123",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-26T07:16:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hankyoreh",
    "slug": "hankyoreh",
    "url": "https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/chungcheong/1274795.html"
  },
  "original_language": "ko",
  "account": "An 11-year-old child who once lived in a church died 11 months ago after suffering abuse from their grandmother and a pastor, with welfare support payments totalling over 1 million dollars being paid out to their mother over the years. According to data received from Chungnam City by a member of the National Assembly's Administration Safety Committee, welfare payments related to the child from December 2014 to November 2022 amounted to 2.295 million dollars. This includes 375 thousand dollars in basic living expenses from December 2014 to August 2016 and 748 thousand dollars in childcare expenses from January 2015 to August 2018 and again from May to December 2021. The remaining 1.123 million dollars was paid directly to the child's mother. The child, who was born in this church in Chungnam City, had been living there for a long time. Despite dying on the 6th day of this month, the child continued to live in the church with the pastor and their grandmother. However, half of the welfare payments were returned to parents who did not raise the child themselves. It is unclear from the data whether the mother or the grandmother received the million-dollar sum, as the source does not specify. The Chungnam City Northwestern District Office's Social Welfare Division and related parties declined to comment on this sensitive matter. The child's mother had been raising the child for a significant period, and the grandmother provided a total of 40 thousand dollars in welfare payments from January to April of 2022. In the child's body, there were signs of fever and drowsiness, as well as rope marks on the wrists and ankles. Police arrested the 60-year-old pastor and the 50-year-old grandmother, who had been living together in the church, on suspicion of child abuse leading to death. They are also investigating a man who lived at the church with the other adults.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}