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A CHINESE COURT has sentenced the head of a playschool and an accomplice to death for killing two children with poisoned yoghurt in northern China, state-run media reported today.
Playschool head Shi Haixia poisoned the children last year in a revenge attack aimed at a rival school in Hebei province which had higher enrollment, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
A court in Hebei sentenced Shi and an accomplice to death, while another person was given a five-year jail sentence, the report said.
Two village girls died after their grandmother found the yoghurt, which was laced with rat poison and placed on a roadside along with several notebooks, state media reported earlier.
The children, whose ages were not given, were found “foaming at the mouth,” the report said. One died before reaching hospital while the other died after receiving treatment.
China has a shortage of state-run kindergartens, and competition between private profit-driven institutions can be intense.
Many children in China’s countryside are cared for by their grandparents because their parents have migrated to cities to find work.
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A child. An innocent child. What kind of sick in the head individual could bring themselves to do this?!
Death is too lenient a punishment.
Lara as a father of 3 children, I find these murders particularly callous and shocking. However, I would exercise a degree of scepticism regarding the veracity of these convictions in a nation which has shown scant regard for due process and basic human rights.
“Criminal defendants faced routine violations of the right to a fair trial and other rights, including denial of access to their lawyers and family, detention beyond legally allowed time frames, and torture and other ill-treatment in detention. The use of torture to extract confessions remained widespread.”
What would we do with these people over here as we don’t have the death penalty? But if you were the parent of a poisoned child I think it’s pretty obvious what punished you’d want meted out.
That is why we don’t allow the victims to determine the sentence. Justice must be impartial and fair. Killing a person as a punishment for killing a person is ludicrous as if you are willing to do the same the perpetrator you inadvertently call into question the badness of the crime itself. The publisher is ultimately then as bad as the perpetrator of the original crime. In fact they may be worse as they may have longer to ponder the wrongness of the punishment they are about to carry out. Ultimately, you can’t say killing is wrong, if you are going to kill those ego kill others.
Punisher not publisher. Autocorrect is the bane of modern communications
Sick sick bast*rds
I’ll shoot him for nothing,
I’ll be your alibi!
And you can call me Al.
That’s considered the PC, liberal attitude over there dexter – only a hippie would do it for free and not charge the bereaved family for the costs associated with the execution, like a bullet!
Jesus that’s depressing news .Why even bother covering this terrible and heartbreaking kind of news.I had the sky news ap and deleted it for this very reason.
It’ll be better when you go to live under the sea Rob. There’ll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans … Under the sea.
If no ‘depressing’ news was shown then there wouldn’t be much news at all..
What a nonsensical statement?!
Spot on Rob, I’m constantly deleting news apps with the audacity to report the news.
I’m in shock. Who could do that to poor, innocent little children? That’s so sad!
Fukin sicko
What a horrible country to live in
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