Legal Story: 80-year-old woman, the teenager who lost his life next door (3)

The leniency of the law is an excuse for committing murder

On August 16, 2002, at the Second Juvenile Offender Correctional Center in Changsha, at about 10:20 a.m., the reporter finally met Wen Feng under the leadership of the correctional cadres. His height of about 1.70 meters, his slightly old face, and the slightest worry in his eyes could not hide that the eyes that were shining brightly were still the purity of the child, and it was even more difficult to believe that he was a murderer who was only 15 years old this year.

After the enlightenment of the correctional cadres and reporters, Wen Feng was silent for a long time and finally reluctantly opened his mouth——

At the age of 5, his parents quarreled over family trivia, and his mother committed suicide by taking medicine. After his mother's death, Wen Feng's soul was greatly traumatized, and his father's temper became more and more irritable, often scolding him for a small matter. Sometimes after being beaten and scolded by his father, he hid in the back mountain and did not dare to go home all night, frightening his father to look around again.

In September 1999, Wen Feng reluctantly entered a middle school in his hometown, where his classmates ate, dressed, and lived better than himself, and spent money generously, but his family was destitute.

After his mother's death, his father was infected with the bad habit of drinking and playing cards, and even Wen Feng's tuition could not be paid, and Wen Feng's heart was not a taste. Later, my father went out to work, but he still did not earn any money. During the two years that his father worked outside, Wen Feng and his sister depended on each other. Sometimes the family life is really not enough, his sister will take him to some neighbors' houses to steal some eggs or something, and then sell them on the street, and then use the money to support his own life. After graduating from junior high school, my sister went out to work, and at the beginning, she occasionally sent some money home for his tuition, and later, she talked about a boyfriend from another province, and she never asked Wen Feng about it again, and she didn't go home for several years.

Growing up in a dilapidated single-parent family and an unloved family environment, Wen Feng gradually developed a lonely, arrogant, and domineering personality, and was also contaminated with the bad habit of stealing chickens and dogs. After entering the third grade of elementary school, he began to exchange stealing his neighbor's things for money to buy food and buy martial arts novels to read.

Reporter: Were you afraid when you smashed Mrs. Zhou with a brick?

Wen Feng: At that time, after killing the old woman, I didn't feel afraid at all, I just felt very relieved and hateful!

Reporter: Why did you smash her to death? Have you considered the consequences?

Wen Feng: Because my father didn't give me money to spend, before I smashed her, I would often go to her house to steal eggs and cook them to eat, or take them to the small shop to change things. She always scolded every time she found out, and sometimes ran to my door to scold. Therefore, everyone knows that I love to steal things, which makes me very faceless. Once, I stole a chicken from her house, and when she found me, my dad grabbed a stick and tried to beat me. At that time, I was eager to kill her immediately! I actually killed her last year, and I just thought it was easy to relieve my hatred, but then I still felt a little scared, but when I thought about it, I thought it was not a big deal. I am not yet 14 years old, and the police will not hold me criminally responsible. Besides, the Public Security Bureau may not be able to crack the case.

The reporter was stunned by Wen Feng's thinking logic, and the law has become an accomplice to the crime here in Wen Feng! The reporter also asked: "Didn't you write a letter of guarantee when you returned to school, and you would no longer cause trouble?" Why did you stick a knife into your classmates in a few days?

When wen Feng mentioned the letter of guarantee, wen Feng was full of disdain: The afternoon after I smashed Mrs. Zhou to death, I was arrested by the people at the police station. However, the public security bureau failed to do anything to me, and released me after less than 10 days in the detention center. The school asked me to write a letter of repentance and a letter of guarantee before allowing me to return to school, so I would not write it. The letter of repentance and the letter of guarantee was written by my father for me. When I returned to school, my classmates said I was a murderer and ignored me, and I was very lonely. That day, Zhou and I had a conflict when we grabbed basketball in the playground, and on the way home from school at noon, we had a dispute about it, and I couldn't help but draw a knife and stab the classmate when I was angry. The first time I killed Mrs. Zhou, I didn't go to jail, not to mention that this time I only stabbed once, and I haven't stabbed the other party to death, I think, at most, I will be expelled from school. I am a minor, and a minor is protected by law and is not criminally responsible. ”

Indeed, the law is particularly tolerant of juvenile delinquents like Wen Feng, and if it were not for the fact that he was still a child, he would be deprived of not only 3 years of freedom today, but perhaps everyone has only one life. However, the tolerance of the law has become an excuse for Wen Feng to commit murder again, which cannot but be said to be a sad thing. Could it be that the disappearance of a life did not cast a shadow in his heart? The reporter inquired: "Do you regret it now?" ”

Wen Feng lowered his head and murmured, "Regret! In fact, the old lady was quite pitiful that week, but now it is too late to regret it. I am ready to make a good transformation in the juvenile detention center, listen to the words of the correctional cadres, and strive to be a person who is useful to society after returning to society. ”

I wish it was a heartfelt confession, even though it came a little late.

Walking out of the juvenile detention center, the reporter's mood is still heavy, and the murder and injury cases created by Wen Feng himself make everyone who cares about him tremble. After all, he was still a child! In the long road of life in the future, looking back on the past? How should he face this page today?

(Minors in this article are pseudonyms)