On the morning of November 4, Chen Xuemei, 27, stood in the courtroom with a wooden expression.
She didn't look to the auditorium, none of her relatives came. She also did not look at the plaintiff's seat, where sat her husband Zou and Zou's ex-wife Wu.
The 7-year-old victim, Zou Moumou, is the child of Zou and his ex-wife Wu Mou, which is also Chen Xuemei's stepson.
On the afternoon of February 7 this year, Chen Xuemei gave Zou Moumou a drink of mineral water mixed with pesticides, and after the toxic attack, handed it over to his grandmother Yan Moumou to hide. At more than 0:40 a.m. on February 8, Zou Moumou was found in an abandoned culvert on the hillside, and finally died of ineffective rescue.
Hide children's abandoned culverts
The police later found out that in the afternoon, Chen Xuemei took the child to the town to buy snacks and pesticides, and then mixed some pesticides into the mineral water, halfway, the child ate snacks, and then took the mineral water mixed with pesticides and drank...
The child unfortunately passed away, and Chen Xuemei did not escape the trial of the law. On the 4th, the court sentenced him to death and deprived him of his political rights for life for intentional homicide.
She feeds the children with mineral water mixed with pesticides
Ask Grandma to bury the child
On the morning of November 4, the Intermediate People's Court of Suining City, Sichuan Province, pronounced a verdict in court after two trials that defendant Chen Xuemei had committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life. Defendant Yan X committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for 3 years. When several relatives of the victims heard the verdict, they burst into tears on the spot.
On November 4, the court sentenced Chen Xuemei to death
On February 7 this year, the third day of the first lunar month, Zou's family went to Suining City's Chuanshan District Yongxing Town relatives' family year, that afternoon, Chen Xuemei rode a bicycle with Zou XX, and on the road to the child drank mineral water with pesticides, after the child's drug seizure, Chen Xuemei let grandma Yan XX bury the child, Yan XX then hid the child in the abandoned culvert.
Lianqiao Village, Jixiang Town, Pengxi County, Suining City, Yan Moumou's three tile houses are surrounded by weeds, behind the house is a bamboo forest, along the path up, through a large overgrown wasteland, and then a slope, is the abandoned culvert.
After midnight the next morning, the police and relatives found Zou Moumou in that culvert. Liao Shuyong, the village director of Lianqiao Village, was a doctor in the village, and he found that the child had lost his breath at the scene, but then he was sent by police car to Suining Central Hospital for rescue.
The child never woke up again. After identification, Zou Moumou died of enemy fear poisoning.
That night, the neighbor had gone to sleep, did not know what had happened to Yan's house, heard a lot of noise outside, but did not get up to check. It wasn't until two days later, when the police returned to the scene with Chen Xuemei and Yan Moumou, that they didn't know what the mother-in-law and grandson had committed.
Judge Wen Yanping told Red Star News that Chen Xuemei's behavior was despicable, resolute, deliberately covered up the crime, delayed the child's rescue time, and his grandmother Yan Moumou jointly participated in the crime, but confessed the behavior.
Take the initiative to call the police
Find children with everyone
On the day of the child's misfortune, on February 7, Chen Xuemei and her family went to a relative's house for lunch, and then prepared to go out to play. At that time, her battery car was blocked by other vehicles, and relatives and friends helped move the car.
After the verdict was pronounced, a relative of the victim told Red Star News that the child was not in her car at that time. After 20 minutes, relatives and friends distributed snacks to the children, and everyone did not see Zou Moumou, so they began to look for it. But how to find no trace of the child, everyone searched for the front of the house, the vegetable pond, all the way to a few miles within a radius.
Relatives and friends called Chen Xuemei, and she said that the child was not with her.
After 7 o'clock that night, Chen Xuemei returned to her relatives' home, and also looked for the child with everyone, and took the initiative to call the police, and the police of yongxing police station rushed to look for it, but she did not provide any clues.
Until after 9 o'clock that night, she and her family went to the adjacent Jixiang Town police station to report the case. But just before she rushed to the police station, relatives who arrived at the police station in advance found that Chen Xuemei's battery car revealed a child's head in the surveillance of the police.
Surveillance filmed Chen Xuemei riding a bicycle with a child
The child crouched in front of the battery car, covered by a windbreak blanket on the car. Surveillance shows that at about 4:20 p.m. that day, Chen Xuemei rode her child into Lianqiao Village, which was the home of her grandmother, Yan Moumou.
Wang Qian, director of the Auspicious Police Station, told Red Star News that at that time, he suspected that the child was hidden in Yan's house, but Chen Xuemei showed calmness, insisted at first that he did not take the child, and in the face of the evidence, he was silent and resolutely did not provide the whereabouts of the child.
After 10 p.m. on February 7, the police of the police station, village and town cadres, and children's relatives all rushed to Lianqiao Village to search behind the front house of Yan Mou's family.
Grandma tells the whereabouts of the child
She once called her grandmother to "bury the child."
When the child was found in the damp culvert behind Yan's house, it was more than 0:40 a.m. on February 8.
Previously, everyone looked around for the child fruitlessly, under the repeated questioning and psychological offensive of the police and village cadres, Yan Moumou finally said the child's hiding place, and then took people up the mountain to look for it.
The police then took control of Chen Xuemei and Yan Moumou. Afterwards, it was found that after Chen Xuemei rode out on the same day, she took Zou Moumou on the side of the road, she took the child directly to her grandmother Yan Moumou's home, and asked whether there was any pesticide at home, after learning that there was no, she rode the child to Qunli Township, bought snacks and pesticides, and mixed the pesticides into the water.
The child ate snacks and drank water. A surveillance video played as evidence in court showed that at about 5:33 p.m. on February 7, Chen Xuemei stopped to mix the pesticide into the mineral water, and discarded the mineral water bottle on the side of the road after the child drank most of the bottle.
Surveillance filmed Chen Xuemei discarding the mineral water bottle
The police later found the mineral water bottle at the scene of the incident and tested that the bottle contained pesticide ingredients. According to Chen Xuemei, when she later sent the child to Yan's home again, the child had vomiting symptoms, and she told Yan that she had given the child a pesticide. She then returned to relatives' homes to participate in the search for the child.
After 7 p.m. on February 7, Chen Xuemei called Yan once and told Yan to carry the child to the mountain and bury it. Subsequently, Yan Hid the child in an abandoned culvert four or five hundred meters away from the house.
Complaints about "the husband's ambiguous relationship with his ex-wife"
The family said that Chen Xuemei did not show any abnormality on the day of the incident, and her husband Zou also said that there was no quarrel with Chen that day.
Zou told the Red Star News reporter that he and Chen Xuemei were junior high school classmates and had read books together for a year. In 2017, the two were connected through QQ and married in February 2018.
Zou said that when Chen Xuemei was first contacted, Chen Xuemei said that she was divorcing her ex-husband.
Zou has a son and a daughter with his ex-wife, and Chen Xuemei has two sons with her ex-husband, similar in age. Chen Xuemei's eldest son was several months older than Zou Moumou, and after the divorce, the eldest son was sentenced to Chen Xuemei to raise.
After marriage, Zou continued to go out to work, and Chen Xuemei lived with her mother-in-law at home. According to Zou's mother, in the first six months, Chen Xuemei brought her eldest son to the Zou family for half a year, but later sent to the child's grandmother's house. Zou's mother told Red Star News, "She is worried that I will not bring her well." ”
In court, Chen Xuemei argued that it was Zou's ambiguous relationship with his ex-wife Wu that made her dissatisfied.
But Zou's mother told Red Star News that Zou's birth mother wanted to see the child, and generally contacted Chen Xuemei first, and she agreed, and the child's mother would come over.
Zou's mother said that the family treated Chen Xuemei well, and she usually did not look like a difficult person to get along with, and the family rarely quarreled. Chen Xuemei has any requirements, and her family also tries to meet her.
For more questions, Chen Xuemei's husband Zou Said he "didn't know." Shortly after the court's first trial, he received a call from Chen Xuemei's father, asking him to forgive Chen Xuemei. But he told his father-in-law that it was impossible.