Today, the Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate issued a report on the case, and after review by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, it decided in accordance with the law to approve the prosecution of the three criminal suspects suspected of killing Wang Moumou, a first-year junior high school student in Handan City, Zhang Moumou, Li Moumou, and Ma Moumou.
The Hebei Provincial People's Procuratorate stated that it will earnestly perform its legal supervision duties and further increase the prevention and management of juvenile crime while handling cases in strict accordance with the law.
Loud and sound, straight to the heart.
It can be seen that age is not a "shield from liability". The investigation of criminal responsibility for 13-year-old Zhang, Li and Ma is a sure thing, which also reflects the spirit of China's rule of law that "there is a law to follow, and the law must be followed".
Recently, the "Handan Student Murder Case" has once again exploded the topic of how to punish and protect minors, which has attracted widespread attention from the whole society.
With the announcement of the case, the heinous atrocities of the three minor suspects sparked public outrage. From the current point of view on the Internet, condemnation and demand for severe punishment of the murderers and expressions of sympathy for the victims are mainstream.
However, there are also some views that are biased, and even use anger against the perpetrators to spread the rhetoric of countering violence with violence and attacking China's legal system - "If the murderer in this case is not severely punished, then I will change my educational philosophy and teach my children to fight violence with violence."
Some bloggers even grasped the mentality that parents are accustomed to automatically bringing in the victims, and began to spread hateful arguments that seem to be righteous and awe-inspiring, but in fact secretly change concepts, and simply blame the mainland's "Law on the Protection of Minors" for juvenile crime that should be prevented by the family, school, society, and the state.
Such a blogger is really stupid - I don't know about the amendment (11) to the Criminal Law promulgated and implemented in 2021 in mainland law, and the mainland law has already adjusted the relevant provisions on the age of criminal responsibility, "A person who has reached the age of 12 but is not yet 14 years old, commits the crime of intentional homicide or intentional injury, causes death or causes serious injury to a person by particularly cruel means, causing severe punishment and disability, and the circumstances are heinous, and the prosecution is approved by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, shall bear criminal responsibility." In other words, minors between the ages of 12 and 14 who commit crimes such as intentional homicide are no longer "exempt from responsibility" from criminal law.
Either it's pure bad – or it's the misleading rhetoric of "killing people without paying for their lives" to incite people's anger and divert their own traffic.
In fact, the protection of the lawful rights and interests of minors in accordance with the law and the resolute punishment of violent crimes committed by minors in accordance with the law are a contradictory unity, and neither one-sided emphasis can be placed on cracking down on nor one-sided emphasis on protection. Punishment is a remedial measure to protect the healthy growth of minors, and protection is the proper meaning of the healthy growth of minors.
To this end, China has promulgated the Law on the Protection of Minors, the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, the Law on the Promotion of Family Education, and other laws that specifically protect and guide minors. These laws and normative documents constitute a system of legal guarantees for the protection of minors.
In this regard, many netizens are still more rational and objective. They expressed their pertinent views on the "Handan student murder case": they support the severe punishment of the perpetrators of violence in accordance with the law, recognize the efforts made by the state and the results achieved in protecting minors, and explore the establishment of psychological counseling and family care mechanisms for left-behind children in schools, villages, and neighborhoods.
In addition, according to the "White Paper on Juvenile Procuratorial Work (2022)" released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate in June 2023, the phenomenon of school bullying has been declining in recent years.
This shows that the relevant functional departments of the government have achieved good results in the protection of minors. Some netizens may retort, why do school bullying incidents often break out on the Internet? This is easy to understand, now that the self-media is in a blowout era, the exposure rate of bullying incidents is naturally much higher than before.
In all fairness, schools, teachers, and parents now take students very seriously when they are bullied, and there are many channels for redress.
In this case, the school, teachers, and parents all have statutory obligations to educate and manage the three perpetrators and the victims. There is no doubt that they should bear the consequences of inadequate management and education. But can these regulatory responsibilities be magnified indefinitely? This is obviously not possible and should not be.
As for countering violence with violence, the author disagrees. What would society be like if the whole of society were to solve the problem simply by countering violence with violence? That is unimaginable.
On the whole, after the occurrence of the case, the public is more concerned about how to punish the problem, which belongs to the category of aftermath. More importantly, we should learn from the many cases, including the "murder of students in Handan, Hebei Province", and there are still many things that can be done to protect the protection and prevent the slightest problem.
Judging from the report, the three perpetrators and victims of the "Handan Student Murder Case in Hebei Province" have one thing in common: left-behind children. Many cases have exposed the common problems of left-behind children: they are dumped at school to teachers, they are left to their grandparents at home, and they lack parental companionship.
In the final analysis, parents are the first teachers of their children, and family education is far more important than school education. In society, many parents believe that education is entirely the business of schools and teachers. Some parents even think that by sending their children to good schools and prestigious schools for boarding, they can "sit back and relax" and be a "hands-off shopkeeper". As everyone knows, the impact of family education on children is even more crucial.
The word education is "teaching" and "education". It is the teachers who teach, but it is the parents who educate the people. Parents or other guardians have an unshirkable responsibility to promote the all-round and healthy growth of their children, and to guide and educate their children's moral and cultural accomplishments, life skills, physical fitness, and behavioral habits.
This puts forward a requirement for parents: they must not only find the right way to educate, but also have the ability to continue to learn how to educate. Translated into the vernacular, it is: When the child grows up, I am also practicing!
Of course, schooling also has a great responsibility. In this case, the principal of Jiudian Middle School, surnamed Li, said that the victim often played with the three suspects before his death, and no bullying was found. Ma Moumou, one of the three suspects, had a good academic performance, and it was completely unexpected to make such a vicious incident. Their homeroom teacher, Mr. Han, said that Wang Moumou had a good relationship with the three suspects before his death, and he did not find any school bullying in his daily life.
The fluttering response provoked a lot of scolding from netizens, and it also reflected that the school is far from meeting the standard in caring for the physical and mental health of children.
Previously, CCTV issued an article "Facing the Torture of Campus Bullying", mentioning, "At present, the society has widespread and strong concerns and demands for campus bullying, and it is time to take it seriously, and we can no longer treat headaches and pains." Punishment without education is extreme, and education without punishment is often ineffective. "To curb bullying in schools, schools need to get the first pass right.
In the prevention of school bullying, any coping with the problem and making superficial statements will lead to serious consequences and will bring disaster to students. Only a scientific and pragmatic work style and a meticulous and thoughtful work attitude are the only magic weapons for the prevention and control of school bullying.
The "Handan Student Murder Case" has aroused great concern in the whole society, and it reflects the re-improvement of the awareness of the whole society to protect minors, which is worthy of recognition. At the same time, the discussion of the case should be from a rational point of view, and should not deviate from the focus.
The internal logic of countering violence with violence mentioned above is inseparable from "being harder than anyone's fist". For parents, letting their children become "strong" or providing more support for themselves can indeed prevent their children from being bullied on campus to a certain extent, but this is a palliative rather than a cure, and a healthy society must not allow the violence of "who is strong and who is justified" to become a deformed and common identity.
Because everyone can't be strong forever. Only with the involvement of families, schools, all sectors of society, and the state can the weak be treated with due respect, can more tragedies be avoided.
Now, with the Supreme People's Procuratorate's approval of the prosecution of the three suspects, it is believed that the judicial organs will punish them according to law "on the basis of facts and the law", so as to comfort the victims and warn those who come after them.