湖南弑母男孩被释放 学生家长反对其返校
Police released a 12-year-old boy from custody last Wednesday, nine days after he had killed his mother, reported The Paper. On Dec. 3 in Yuanjiang, a city in central China's Hunan province, the boy, surnamed Wu, fatally stabbed his 34-year-old mother, according to police. Wu later told police that he had decided to take revenge after she had beaten him one time too many. But according to China's juvenile delinquency law, children under 14 who commit crimes are exempt from punishment and can only be "subjected to reprimand." As such, police set the boy free. Wu's release was met with fierce opposition from his classmates' parents, who told their school and local media that they feared Wu's return would endanger their children. As a result, the boy is now being handled as a special case: He has been removed from his home and is staying at a hostel, where he is monitored by his father and grandmother, police, and education authorities, according to Rednet.cn, a local media outlet. Rednet also reported that psychological counseling and classes on the law and other academic subjects are available to Wu. Two teachers from the school the boy attended have been appointed to tutor him at the hostel. The seeming lack of consequences for Wu has catapulted his case from small-town crime story to the subject of national attention. Publications like Legal Daily and the official Xinhua News Agency focused on Wu's lack of remorse -- he reportedly defended his actions by saying, "But I didn't kill other people, I only killed my mother." |