On October 26, 2021, the Yuexiu District People's Court in Guangdong Province tried an intentional homicide case.
The suspect Wang Wanlan added an overdose of sleeping pills to the porridge and poisoned his own son Li Jian'en.
After a four-hour trial, the judge got up and read the verdict, and all the trial personnel held their breath.
The next moment, the judge announced: the criminal suspect Wang Wanlan was released in court.
Countless netizens were shocked - "This is not a legitimate defense killing, but a deliberate killing, not to mention that the tiger poison does not eat children, how can you not bear any responsibility for killing children for your mother?" ”
But when they saw the life of Wang Wanlan and his son, all those who questioned the verdict were silent.
October 14, 1971, Guangzhou People's Hospital.
Accompanied by a cry of "wow wow", Wang Wanlan looked at the baby in the nurse's hand and was so excited that she could not speak. The husband, who has always been poor, paid for four large boxes of candy and distributed them to the doctors, nurses and patients on the entire floor.
Fourteen years ago, Wang Wanlan gave birth to a son. Later, she and her husband wanted to have another child, but she did not get pregnant again until she was 37 years old.
Considering that she is an advanced maternal age, her husband takes great care of her.
He went to work at 6 a.m., and in order not to worry her, he spent 2 hours a night cooking a large table of dishes so that she could eat hot the next day.
Near the month of due date, her husband took a long vacation from the company to concentrate on taking care of her at home.
At the moment when his son Li Jian'en was born, Wang Wanlan gritted his teeth and sat up. She looked at her son's pink face, her eyes were full of relief and expectation, and gently called: "Good child, call mother." ”
The husband laughed at her stupidity, and any child would call out to her parents so quickly.
A year later, Wang Wanlan tried to get Li Jian'en to call out to his mother.
Li Jian'en did not react to her call in the slightest, and tried to stand up crookedly, but those bloated legs kept trembling. He didn't take two steps before he fell to the ground, drooling all over the place.
This time, the husband did not laugh. Wang Wanlan looked at his eldest son and thought that he would call his mother before he was a year old.
Her husband still comforted her: "Children learn to speak fast and slowly, some children do not speak until they are 3 or 4 years old, don't worry." ”
As the children grew older, the husband's comfort became more and more reluctant.
When Li Jian'en was 5 years old, the difference between him and children of the same age could no longer be hidden. Other children ran in the yard, and Li Jian'en even had to wrestle when he walked, and his speech was limited to making a strange sound of "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Once, Li Jian'en overturned the basin of water. Cold water poured over his body, and he was unconscious, but grinned, stuck out his tongue, stared blankly, and his huge head shook like a pendulum.
When Wang Wanlan saw this scene, she cried out "Wow".
The corridors of the hospital seemed to have no end, and Wang Wanlan's husband crouched in the door of the diagnosis room, more nervous than when he waited for his son to be born 5 years ago.
Finally, they waited for the diagnosis and saw a line: the initial diagnosis was trisomy 21.
"This is a disease caused by chromosomal abnormalities, 60% of the children are miscarried early in the fetus, and the survivors have obvious intelligence backwardness, special appearance, growth and development disorders and multiple deformities..."
"Mental retardation", "developmental disability", "deformity"...
Every short description, such as a bullet hitting Wang Wanlan. And when the doctor said that "there is no effective cure at present", she could not help but tremble and stiffen violently, followed by a dizziness hit, and her eyes suddenly became dark.
Two days later, Wang Wanlan and her husband hugged Li Jian'en and came to the Provincial People's Hospital. They lined up for 2 hours and eventually waited for the same diagnosis.
Over the next few years, they ran through major hospitals inside and outside the province, but one by one, the same diagnosis documents destroyed their last remaining hope inch by inch.
The car back home bumped all the way, and Wang Wanlan snuggled tightly on Xiao Guoen's forehead. After a while, the child's face was wet with a large piece, full of her tears.
She stood on the balcony holding her son, watching other children running around in the yard, and her heart was full of misery and despair.
Suddenly, she heard an almost sobbing voice coming from Li Jian'en's mouth: "Mom... Mom..."
Wang Wanlan "banged" on the ground and hugged Li Jian'en and cried. He was 8 years old and finally learned to call her mother, and no matter how he grew up, his intelligence was only the level of a 7-year-old child.
But for Wang Wanlan, she was satisfied to hear her son shout at her mother.
She hugged Li Jian'en tighter and tighter, and said to herself in her heart: "It is also good for him to let him live his life carefreely when he is a child who never grows up." ”
When Li Jian'en was 18 years old, he still only said "Mom and Dad", and he couldn't even do oral calculations within 10 years, but fortunately, he was able to walk around under the support, and he also learned to eat and go to the toilet by himself.
Wang Wanlan and her husband went to work during the day and hired a nanny to take care of Li Jian'en at home. After work, the couple helped their son to walk in the community.
They would go to the entrance of the community every day to eat snacks. Li Jian'en grabbed a spoon and ate porridge, and every time he ate it, he was full of clothes, tables, and floors.
The people who came and went couldn't help but frown and look at him a few more times, only Wang Wanlan looked at him intently, sometimes showing a happy smile.
One thing has always been in her mind: she and her husband are more than half a hundred years old, and when they are old or gone, who can take care of Li Jian'en.
She and her husband decided to find a daughter-in-law for their son, no matter what, as long as they were willing to take care of him.
They took out more than 30 years of savings as a bride price. Many families saw the amount of the bride price and came to talk about their relatives.
Wang Wanlan gave them a preventive injection, saying that her son had some problems and that the girl had to suffer more grievances. The girl's parents laughed and said that it was all right, and the girl had to learn to take more care of others.
They came to the living room and saw Li Jian'en's open mouth and shaking his head, and Fang Cai's smiling face was stained iron blue. With an almost convulsive "sigh" sound, the head walked away without turning back.
In just one week, the Li family in the city was unattended, and everyone in the county town was discussing "so-and-so's family is looking for a daughter-in-law for a stupid son", and the words were full of ridicule.
The husband was not willing, and added the money earned every month to the amount of the bride price, but no matter how to increase the bride price, no one took the girl to the door.
11 years later, the 69-year-old husband was admitted to the hospital for sudden high blood pressure, and after 2 months of treatment, his condition did not improve, but instead took a sharp turn for the worse.
Wang Wanlan held her husband's thin hand, and their desire to find a daughter-in-law for their son was completely broken at this moment.
At her husband's funeral, Li Jian'en didn't know everything in front of him, shaking his head while screaming "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
She hugged her son in a wheelchair, looked at her husband's posthumous photo and said, "Jian'en is the only one in this world!" ”
Someone persuaded Wang Wanlan to send Li Jian'en to the welfare home, she visited several nearby welfare homes, and found that there were many lonely and widowed elderly people, sitting all day without anyone to take care of them, and she shook her head repeatedly.
She also did not want to disrupt the life of her eldest son, and finally decided to take care of Li Jian'en at home alone.
Every day, in addition to cooking Li Jianen's living, Wang Wanlan will also go to the community service station to measure blood pressure, afraid that he will also have a three long and two short.
On Li Jian'en's thirtieth birthday, the staff of the service station told Wang Wanlan that her blood pressure was high and suggested that she go to the hospital for examination.
This investigation not only detected high blood pressure, but also detected heart disease.
The next day, Wang Wanlan clutched the physical examination report and got up more than half an hour later than usual. She wanted to wait for Li Jian'en to shout "Mother" before getting up, but she didn't wait, so she had to struggle to get up and carry the basin to her son's room.
The washbasin slammed into the ground with a bang. Li Jian'en fell to the ground on his side, one leg hanging on the edge of the bed, his face turned purple-blue, and he gasped for breath.
Li Jian'en was immediately admitted to the hospital. After the doctor came out of the rescue room, he told Wang Wanlan with a heavy face that Li Jianen had a serious brain atrophy, not only further deteriorated his intelligence, but also spent the second half of his life in bed.
Since then, the breakfast shop at the entrance of the community has no longer seen Wang Wanlan sitting with her son drinking porridge, and some are just a mother with a sad face, who rushes home with breakfast.
After Li Jian'en was discharged from the hospital, he ate and drank Lazar in bed every day. In order to avoid long-term lying down leading to sores and blood blockages, Wang Wanlan always stayed at the head of the bed, flipping his body for him from time to time and tutting on the joints.
Despite this, Li Jian'en was incapacitated, his muscles continued to atrophy, and he later became very difficult to even eat. Every time Wang Wanlan fed him a mouthful of food, he couldn't swallow it for 5 minutes, and finally most of it fell to the ground along the corner of his mouth.
Wang Wanlan had to chew the rice first and then feed it to Li Jian'en, and soon she found that the rice had become cold and salty. Looking down, it turned out that his tears were running down his chin, "ticking" into the rice bowl.
Such a day, once passed, is 16 years.
In 2017, 84-year-old Wang Wanlan was admitted to the hospital for a sudden heart attack. During the hospitalization, Wang Wanlan felt that she was getting weaker and weaker, and even going to the toilet became very difficult, and she felt a pang of despair in her heart when she thought of her son who was still lying at home.
On the day of discharge, Wang Wanlan overheard a doctor reprimanding the patient's family: "How many times have you told me that the dose adjustment should follow the doctor's instructions!" Sleeping pills are something that is overdose to kill people! ”
Wang Wanlan's heart shook violently, and she was a little breathless for a moment.
After returning home, Wang Wanlan still took care of Li Jian'en, but she really couldn't even hold the rice bowl steadily.
At this time, the eldest son would rush to help her feed.
Wang Wanlan looked at the eldest son who looked down to feed the food, and then looked at the younger son who was full of pain, and felt even more uncomfortable: Jian'en has suffered all his life, I have suffered with him for a lifetime, after I die, will I still have to suffer with the eldest baby for a lifetime?
One cold morning, Wang Wanlan came to the hospital and gave the doctor two sleeping pills. When describing her illness, her face was as calm as a statue.
After that, Wang Wanlan went to the hospital from time to time, and the sleeping pills he took back were hidden in the drawer at the head of his bed.
On May 9, 2017, she wrote a letter of clarification. The letter describes how Li Jian'en was diagnosed with trisomy 21 in the past 40 years, how his condition deteriorated step by step, and how he took care of him.
Finally, she added: No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with my eldest son, Li Jianjian, and I am fully responsible!
She stuffed the letters into a drawer, then took out 76 sleeping pills, one by one, pressed into a powder and melted into the water.
She pushed open her son's door and handed the bowl to him as usual.
Li Jian'en took a sip and kept shouting "Mom", which was the only thing he remembered after his brain atrophication. Wang Wanlan knew that he felt bitter, and added a spoonful of honey to the bowl.
When Wang Wanlan fed him sleeping pills, she gently said in his ear: "Well, it is not bitter, and it will not be bitter after drinking." ”
She put her sleeping son on her knees, as if she had traveled back 46 years.
At that time, her husband was at the head of the bed, and she held the newborn Jian'en and felt that she was the happiest mother under the heavens.
After Li Jianen's death, Wang Wanlan went to the local police station to turn himself in.
The court indicted Wang Wanlan on charges of intentional homicide, and when the prosecutor explained the case, he did not hold back his tears several times.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, who wants to believe in the love of their parents and have such a desperate look?
Residents of the community have written to intercede, proving that Wang Wanlan has been meticulous to his son for more than 40 years, even if he chooses to poison his son, it is also to prevent him from continuing to suffer.
In the end, the court pronounced a verdict in court: Wang Wanlan was convicted of intentional homicide, but his circumstances were forgivable, and he was sentenced to 3 years in prison, suspended for 4 years.
Now, the 4-year probation has passed, and Wang Wanlan has been able to live in peace in his old age.
Everyone was relieved, but for Wang Wanlan, when the despair brought by life made her kill her son who had taken care of her for a lifetime, no matter how much forgiveness she had in the future, it seemed insignificant.
In fact, not only Wang Wanlan, according to the second national sample survey of the disabled, there are more than 421,000 disabled people aged 15-59 in the country, many of whom are only children.
Their parents not only have no one to retire, but in order to take care of them, they get up early every day and make money in the dark.
The writer Henry Van once said: "Society solves its own induced problems by remedying rather than caring, and true care is the attention and love from beginning to end." ”
Wang Wanlan was sentenced to a light sentence, which is the glory of humanity outside the law.
But what is more worthy of our concern is that she should not have been forced to the trial by life.
Rather than extra-legal kindness, letting an old man like Wang Wanlan have more courage to persevere may be what this society should do more.
Some references:
"83-year-old mother who killed her son was given a suspended sentence, and the prosecution believes that there is a difference between killing her son because of her love of children and vicious violent crimes", Nanfang Daily;
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Author: Jiang Yumu
Edit: Pale Green