With the increasing level of social education now, many people have noticed the important role of "companionship" in the growth process of children.
However, in some areas, due to the pressure of life, there are still many left-behind children.
Due to poor education, a very small number of left-behind children have committed illegal and criminal acts in special circumstances.
The most notable of these is Wu Kang (pseudonym), a 12-year-old boy in Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province.
Growing up with his grandparents, he was forced to live with his mother after entering puberty.
The educational environment in which childhood is diametrically opposed to adolescence, coupled with the advent of the rebellious period, allows Wu Kang to commit the extreme act of killing his own mother with his own hands under the catalysis of various effects.
Afterwards, Wu Kang actually continued to live with a calm face.
This led to the whole case arousing the attention of the whole society after the media report.
What caused this tragedy of mother-killing to occur, and how can we avoid it?
Strange nights, terrible murders
Wang Shuang (not his real name) is Wu Kang's mother's neighbor and the first person to notice something unusual at the scene of the incident.
Wang Shuang's home is adjacent to the home of Wu Kang's mother, Chen Hong (pseudonym), separated by only one wall.
On weekdays, if anyone speaks louder or has a quarrel, the other family can hear it.
At 9 p.m. on December 2, 2018, Wang Shuang, who had been working for a day, was resting at home when he suddenly heard a quarrel and crying coming from next door.
After the quarrel, Wang Shuang heard a dull voice again, and then there was no sound.
Hearing these strange sounds, Wang Shuang's first reaction was whether there would be an accident next door.
She got up and knocked on the door of Chen Hong's family, and it took a long time before Wu Kang came to open the door.
Wang Shuang asked Wu Kang if something had happened at home.
Wu Kang said calmly that there was nothing wrong, it was his brother who accidentally pulled shit on the bed, and he beat him up, and he cried.
Hearing such an answer, Wang Shuang stopped delving deeply and went home to sleep.
The next day, when Wang Shuang went out, he found that the door of Chen Hong's house was not open.
The house where Wang Shuang and Chen Hong live is a kind of low house facing the street.
The living room door on the first floor is a roller shutter door, facing the street, and if there is no problem on weekdays, the roller shutter door in the living room of every household is generally open.
Chen Hong always got up early to open the door on weekdays, but on this day, the roller shutter door was closed very tightly, and there was no trace of Chen Hong at all.
This made Wang Shuang, who had just gone out, feel a little strange.
Fearing an accident, Wang Shuang called Chen Hong's father, Wu Kang's grandfather Chen Guohua (pseudonym), hoping that he would come to see if chen hong had any problems.
At this time, no one realized that the murder had happened, and the room was already full of blood.
Not long after, Chen Guohua came to the door and knocked on the door for a while, before his grandson Wu Kang opened the door.
Entering the living room, Chen Guohua did not have any abnormalities, and his grandson Wu Kang did not look anything out of the ordinary, and was peeling oranges for his brother to eat.
Chen Guohua saw that his daughter's room door was locked, so he asked Wu Kang: "Where has my mother gone?" ”
Wu Kang replied calmly that his mother had something to do with her friends and went to town with a large bag, so that Chen Guohua would not worry.
Chen Guohua felt that something was wrong, but he did not investigate deeply.
After he saw that the door of the room was locked, he asked Wu Kang where the key was, and Wu Kang claimed that he had been taken by his mother.
Then Chen Guohua kindly asked Wu Kang's mother if there was anything in her room that needed to be taken, and if so, she could climb the window and open the door from the inside.
Wu Kang said, "There's nothing inside, don't climb, don't fall on you anymore." ”
At that time, Chen Guohua still felt that his grandson was quite concerned about his body.
But in hindsight, Chen Guohua said in disbelief while recalling: "How can this child be so calm?" How can it be so bold? Kill someone and don't even change your face! ”
This is an afterthought after all.
At the time of the incident, Chen Guohua did not think much at all, and was afraid that after his daughter left, the Wu Kang brothers would not be able to eat, and sent them to their grandparents' house for dinner.
After sending his grandson away, Chen Guohua still felt that something was wrong, and neighbors also advised him that he should go home to find his daughter.
So Chen Guohua and Wu Kang's grandmother came to Chen Hong's residence again.
This time, Chen Guohua came to the second floor, climbed through the window into his daughter's anti-locked room, and saw a scene that shocked him.
Chen Hong's room was full of blood, the tables and chairs and benches were crooked from side to side, the furniture was scattered on the ground, and Chen Hong himself fell in a pool of blood.
Witnessing this scene, Chen Guohua collapsed on the spot, crying bitterly, and only with the help of other well-wishers did he think of calling the police.
A 12-year-old mother-killer teenager, his composure is frightening
Before the police arrived at the scene, Chen Guohua found 12-year-old Wu Kang and asked what had happened to his grandson.
At that time, Chen Guohua still did not think that Wu Kang was the murderer of his daughter, he only wanted to ask what strangers had been in and out of the house.
In this regard, Wu Kang said that his mother's death was a suicide and had nothing to do with others.
When the police came to the scene of the crime and questioned Wu Kang, Wu Kang was intimidated by the deterrent power of the police and admitted that his mother had been killed by himself.
This answer made Chen Guohua almost collapse again.
He knew that his grandson had always been difficult to discipline, but he couldn't believe that a person could be so cruel to his own mother, let alone a 12-year-old teenager.
Next, the police interrogated Wu Kang and sorted out the whole case.
The results of the combing are incredulous to everyone who knows the details.
On the night of the incident, Wu Kang and Chen Hong clashed because of the contradiction, Wu Kang took a stool and knocked Chen Hong unconscious, and then killed his own biological mother with a knife.
After the killing, Wu Kang did not panic at all, and he returned to the house to change into a clean dress.
At this time, he heard the knock of his neighbor Wang Shuang, so he opened the door and lied to Wang Shuang, claiming that the noise and crying just now were the contradictions between himself and his brother.
After tricking the neighbors, Wu Kang unlocked his mother's door, and then put the sharp knife that killed his mother in a box and hid the box in the bathroom.
Before going to bed, Wu Kang also used Chen Hong's mobile phone to send a leave message to his class teacher, pretending to be his mother's tone that he had a cold and could not go to school the next day.
After doing all this, Wu Kang took his young brother to sleep on the sofa in the living room for the night.
The next day, Grandpa Chen Guohua came to knock on the door.
After Wu Kang opened the door to talk to Chen Guohua, he used his calm answer to prevent Chen Guohua from preparing to enter Chen Hong's room around the window to find the body.
When the East Window incident occurred and the police came to the scene to find Wu Kang's murder weapon to kill Chen Hong, Wu Kang also lied to the police, saying that he threw the knife into the pond.
Because of Wu Kang's lie, the police organized a large number of police forces and sucked in the pond with magnets for half a day, but still did not find the murder weapon.
Finally, when I searched the room, I found the box in the bathroom and found the knife inside.
It is hard to imagine how calm Wu Kang really is in his heart, so that he can use this series of lies to exonerate himself after killing his mother with his own hands.
After the incident, someone asked Wu Kang some questions, and the answers given by Wu Kang were also shocking.
When he was taken away by the police, some people around him asked him why he killed his mother, and Wu Kang replied: "I just hate her!" ”
After returning home from the police station, relatives also asked him about the situation.
Wu Kang didn't seem to have any feelings of guilt, and while watching TV, he responded to the questions of his relatives: "I didn't kill anyone else, I killed my own mother." ”
Perhaps the implication of this sentence is that in Wu Kang's view, killing his mother does not have to pay any price.
In fact, Wu Kang himself really did not think that he would pay any price.
When he was taken away by the public security organs, Wu Kang said this sentence: "It is impossible for the school not to let me go to school, right?" ”
In Wu Kang's view, he just killed his mother, and after a little treatment, he can return to the campus and live a normal life.
From any point of view, such a 12-year-old is too shocking.
While we were shocked by what Wu Kang did, we couldn't help but wonder, what kind of family environment has shaped his character?
A childhood without parental love
"Listen to Grandpa and don't fight at school."
"Go to school well, study well."
These two sentences from the other end of the phone constituted all the family education of Wu Kang's childhood.
From the age of two, Wu Kang's parents chose to leave home to work, and they left Wu Kang in his hometown to be cared for by his grandfather and grandmother.
Since he can remember, Wu Kang has rarely seen his parents, and most of the time he has been with his grandfather.
Wu Kang rarely mentioned the situation when he was a child.
We can only get a rough idea of what kind of life he has lived in the past 12 years from his grandfather's words.
Wu Kang did not like to talk much when he was young, and after entering the school, he became less talkative, his personality was very introverted, and he was unwilling to tell his family about any difficulties in school.
Mainly because there are only grandparents in the family, even if they say it, they can't solve the problem.
Wu Kang's grandfather said that he used to see Wu Kang's injuries and ask him what was wrong, and he would not answer most of the time.
Now that I think about it, I guess I often fight with people at school.
From the perspective of parents now, Wu Kang at this time may already need the intervention of adults to establish the correct three views for him.
But Wu Kang's grandfather was an ordinary farmer, and the old man had come this way all his life, so it was difficult for him to pay attention to the psychological state of the young man.
The older generation thinks in their hearts that if the child eats well, dresses well, and looks strong, he has already tried his best.
However, Wu Kang's grandfather also said that in the year when Wu Kang was six years old, something happened that may leave a wound on the child's heart.
That year, Wu Kang was playing at the door when he was hit by a passing van.
Wu Kang's grandfather rushed out to deal with it, and also called his son and daughter-in-law, asking what to do.
The son and daughter-in-law on the other end of the phone did not know the situation, but from Wu Kang's grandfather's description, they felt that the matter was not serious, so they did not rush back to their hometown.
Instead, he asked Wu Kang's grandfather to ask the driver for a little medical expenses, and then hung up the phone.
The traffic accident was finally resolved in a private manner, and Wu Kang's grandfather only needed some medical expenses to treat Wu Kang's injuries.
However, the hospital conducted an appraisal afterwards and determined that Wu Kang had become a Grade 10 disability due to this traffic accident.
When he was a child, Wu Kang used to cry and shout to find his mother, but when he grew up, he gradually had no need for his parents' love, and he didn't know if it was because of this accident
After all, although a six-year-old child is small, he can also feel the sadness of his parents not being around when he is injured and helpless.
Before the age of ten, Wu Kang's only contact with his parents was to talk to his parents from time to time through his grandfather's old man's machine.
The process of the call is usually based on his parents' criticism and education and "listen well, go to school well", and Wu Kang can't get any family experience from the phone.
In this family environment, because of the lack of parents' words and deeds, grandpa and grandma did not have enough energy to discipline him, resulting in Wu Kang gradually being spoiled.
In the past, grandpa went out to play cards, and when he won the money, he would give Wu Kang twenty yuan or so to spend pocket money.
Later, Wu Kang began to take the initiative to ask for money from the elders, and once he did not ask for money, he would lose his temper.
Once, Grandpa Chen Guohua gave him twenty yuan, Wu Kang felt that he would continue to ask for it, Chen Guohua did not give it, and Wu Kang beat Grandpa up.
Working with the elders is one of the daily exchanges between Wu Kang and his grandmother.
Grandma would often scold Wu Kang for not obeying or resisting, and at this time Wu Kang would also fight back.
For Wu Kang's practice, Grandma's education method is usually "more fierce" and "more fighting" than Wu Kang.
Wu Kang generally succumbs at a young age, but as he gets older, the side effects of this violent practice grow.
Soon, Wu Kang learned how to work with adults and how to steal money.
According to his cousin, Wu Kang stole money from his grandfather's pocket at least twice, probably hundreds of dollars.
And this life did not last long, because from the age of ten, Wu Kang's parents returned.
Living with his mother during the rebellious period prompted the tragedy
Wu Kang's parents did not care about their son at all, and during their time outside work, they often heard about Wu Kang's recent situation from the mouths of Wu Kang's grandparents.
As Wu Kang stepped into adolescence, he became more and more rebellious.
Wu Kang's mother, Chen Hong, also began to realize that she really seemed to need to stay by her son's side and discipline for a while.
So Wu Kang's parents returned to their hometown and took out a loan in the town to buy a house and prepare to have a second child.
At the same time, he also took Wu Kang to live and began to raise Wu Kang personally.
Helplessly, at this time, Wu Kang did not have much need for his parents.
Wu Kang's father often went out, and only Chen Hong was at home to discipline him.
She only has a primary school education, does not know much about educational methods, and often clashes with Wu Kang in her life.
After living with his parents, Wu Kang felt that his freedom was restricted.
He could no longer steal money, smoke, eat betel nuts at will, and do something that would be scolded by his mother, Chen Hong.
The only thing that makes Wu Kang feel a little happy is that Chen Hong's mobile phone is more advanced than his grandfather's old machine, and he can play a lot of mobile phone games.
He often shows off to his cousins about what he has accomplished in the game, and how great it is.
However, the exposure to mobile games also made Wu Kang further unintentional to learn, which made Chen Hong very dissatisfied.
In Chen Hong's critical education of Wu Kang, Wu Kang felt the annoyance brought about by his mother's nagging.
In this way, the relationship between the two people is getting worse and worse every day, and the conflict is getting more and more intense every day.
In severe cases, the two people even spoke harshly to each other, asking each other why they were not hit by a car on the street.
In the eyes of neighbor Wang Shuang, the relationship between Wu Kang and Chen Hong is like an enemy.
The mother and son had moved their hands, and Wu Kang, because of his young age and strength, even pressed his mother's neck against the wall.
Wang Shuang happened to witness this scene and was ready to call the police.
But Chen Hong stopped her, saying that her son was still young and would have to find a wife in the future, and she was afraid that others would talk about her son.
In this way, under the combined action of various yin and yang errors and the inertia of reality that cannot be changed, Wu Kang finally made an irreparable mistake.
The fuse for Wu Kang to kill Chen Hong was just a few packs of cigarettes and betel nuts.
At that time, Chen Hong had just attended someone else's wedding and brought back a few packs of cigarettes and betel nuts from the wedding.
Because these things were worth a little money, Chen Hong originally planned to sell these things, but Wu Kang, who liked to smoke and eat betel nuts, stole them.
The 12-year-old son smoked and stole, which made Chen Hong angry and quarreled with Wu Kang.
Unfortunately, this time, the neighbors did not have time to save Chen Hong.
Wu Kang's long-suppressed anger suddenly erupted, causing him to desperately end his mother's life.
He was eventually released by the police, attracting numerous attention
The whole thing is a complete family tragedy, for the media and netizens, such a murder case, even in the novel is not common.
People feel sorry for Chen Hong's death, and while they are angry at what Wu Kang did, they have not forgotten that this is a real thing.
What kind of punishment Wu Kang wants to accept for this is the focus of many people's attention.
Out of the protection of minors' immature thinking, the mainland adopts provisions on non-criminal responsibility for juveniles under the age of 14.
As a result, 12-year-old Wu Kang was not tried and detained, and after 9 days of killing his biological mother, Wu Kang was released by the police.
This has triggered heated discussions among netizens, and has also caused dissatisfaction among Wu Kang's original school and parents of classmates.
Many parents of students who originally attended the same school as Wu Kang wrote to ask the school to refuse Wu Kang to return to school.
They think a 12-year-old boy who killed his own mother doesn't yet know if he'll do something more radical.
The day after Wu Kang was released and returned home, Wu Kang's grandparents and father took him to live in a hotel in the town.
Because of the various gossip in the village, and the fear of adults and children, it may stimulate Wu Kang.
The relevant parties also gave an explanation for why Wu Kang was able to regain his freedom so easily.
According to the regulations, juvenile correctional facilities may take in juvenile offenders who have reached the age of 14 and are under the age of 18.
Wu Kang, 12, is clearly not among them.
At the same time, the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency stipulates that juveniles aged 13 to 17 who have serious misconduct but do not reach the level of illegal crimes can enter work-study schools.
In Wu Kang's case, both his age and the degree of illegal crimes clearly did not meet this provision.
Therefore, according to the relevant provisions of the current mainland law, Wu Kang can only be brought back by his family for supervision, and any other additional measures are not within the scope of the law.
This has also caused some legal practitioners to step up their efforts to formulate regulations related to the prevention of juvenile delinquency.
In addition to the legal aspect, we should also learn from this extreme case and clarify the important role that parents play in the development of their children.
Relevant studies abroad have proved that the link between childhood trauma and illegal crimes is obvious.
Many of the more famous serial killers have a childhood that lacks the love of their parents or has a tragic experience different from ordinary people.
Of course, this does not mean that every child who lacks parental love will sin, but the close connection contained in it makes people have to be shocked.
Children who are subjected to violence do not necessarily treat others violently.
But such children continue to grow up in an environment of lack of love and violence, and the probability of eventually going astray is definitely greater than that of children who grow up in a normal family environment.
I hope that there will be no more such tragedies in the future, and I hope that every parent can grow up healthily with their children.