A three-year-old girl was starved to death after being confined to her home for 17 days without any care, and her body was already decomposing when she was found.
How could her mother bear to leave her young for 17 days?
Why did she sentence two police officers for her death?
Today we will talk about this human tragedy that happened in 2003!
1. Young and ignorant of marriage
The three-year-old girl who died tragically in her home is named Li Siyi, and her story has to start with her mother, Li Guifang.
Li Guifang is a rural girl who dropped out of school before finishing junior high school to work in other places.
At that time, she was just a young girl who had not been deeply involved in the world, and she left her hometown to come to the big city, and when she saw the neon flashes and high-rise buildings for the first time, everything in front of her deeply attracted her.
Although she is just a working girl who works hard every day, she prefers this place to the life of a countryman.
After working like this for a while, Li Guifang, who is outgoing and lively, made many good friends in the city.
At the age of the beginning of love, she met a handsome boy, that is, his ex-husband, and the handsome man and beautiful woman looked at each other and smiled for life.
The two also went through a sweet love and entered the palace of marriage, and soon Li Guifang gave birth to a white and chubby son.
Xide Guizi was originally a good thing to envy others, but for this young couple, the daily expenses of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea and the children's expenses gradually became the fuse for endless quarrels between them.
Originally, in the world of two people, their respective incomes could still support the expenses of the small family, but they had children all of a sudden, and because Li Guifang took care of the children and did not work for a while, the burden of the family suddenly fell on her husband.
Gradually, the handsome boy who first met couldn't bear the pressure of life and became a man who drank and spilled all day long.
After returning home, he no longer smiled at Li Guifang, but looked coldly at this woman who had no job to support herself, and her son who was waiting to be fed in her arms.
As a result, he became more afraid of going home, and even became irritable when he heard his son crying.
In this way, day after day, finally one day he had a quarrel with someone because of alcoholism, and then escalated to physical contact, and finally beat the other party to death, and then went to prison.
After her husband was imprisoned, Li Guifang, who had no income, raised her son alone for a period of time, so she sued for divorce.
Considering that she did not have a stable income and did not meet the conditions for raising her son, the court awarded the son to the care of her husband's parents, and she could pay a certain amount of monthly maintenance.
Without a son, keeping a grandson is also a gratifying thing for the old couple.
After the divorce, Li Guifang began a free and uninhibited life, she often went out day and night, and made friends with many unemployed vagrants of men and women.
While enjoying the pleasure of indulgence, she lamented that she shouldn't get married too early and let oil, salt, sauce and vinegar consume her young and unrestrained life.
However, when she was immersed in the comfortable life of bright lights and singing night and night, she accidentally became addicted to drugs.
At this time, she did not stop at the precipice to quit drugs, but indulged herself even more and completely embarked on the road of no return.
Li Guifang, who is addicted to drugs, has to use her chaotic private life to earn funds for herself, but in this case, she unexpectedly became pregnant.
At first, she didn't want to keep this child, but after all, she was a woman who had been a mother, and after thinking about it, she still left this little life that didn't know who her father was.
2. Single mothers
After being pregnant for ten months and giving birth once, Li Guifang became a mother again. She gave birth to a lovely girl named Li Siyi.
After having a daughter, she planned to be a competent mother, so she found a serious job and stabilized.
But helplessly, there is no one to help, she is a single mother, while working, she has to take care of the children, and she has to lock the children at home and let her cry until she gets off work and then feed.
A mother who is addicted to drugs not only has to pay for her drug addiction, but also has to pay monthly child support for her son born to her ex-husband, so Xiao Siyi's life can be imagined.
Xiao Siyi often waited for her mother's return by lying on the window when her mother went out to work, often waiting for a day.
Many kind neighbors got to know the lovely little girl through the window and handed the poor child some food to eat.
Whenever she accepted a gift from a kind uncle or aunt, she would politely say "thank you".
Therefore, everyone likes her very much, and some people even want to adopt her, but they are all frightened away by Li Guifang's various requirements, and she can only live a hungry life with her mother.
The neighbors couldn't stand it anymore, so they reported Xiao Siyi's situation to the welfare home, but because her biological mother was still still in the situation and did not meet the relevant regulations, the welfare home could not accept her.
What's even more sad is that her mother Li Guifang had a drug addiction attack during work one day and was directly fired by the boss, which undoubtedly made the life of the mother and daughter even worse, but who can blame this?
After losing her job, Li Guifang also tried to find a suitable job to make ends meet, but what awaited her was rejection again and again.
In desperation, she began to steal things, and she also succeeded many times during this period, she used the stolen things for household use, and the surplus would be sold for money.
Several times at the supermarket, she was caught by the security guards, but when she learned that she was a single mother and that there was a three-year-old girl at home who needed to be taken care of, she was reprimanded.
It is probably that Li Guifang's opportunity to use her daughter as a talisman has been exhausted.
One day in June 2003, when she was caught stealing shampoo from a supermarket, she told her that she still had a young daughter to take care of, but the security guard still reported the case.
The police were Wang Xin, deputy director of the supermarket police station, and Huang Xiaobing, a police officer.
When interrogated by the police, she confessed to her theft, and repeatedly mentioned to the police that she still had young children to take care of at home, and even said that she had not eaten today.
Probably because of the sensitivity of her profession, her eager remarks aroused the doubts of the police, who instinctively suspected that she was a drug addict and took a urine test on the spot.
It doesn't matter what she does, Li Guifang's identity as an addict is real, and the police immediately sent her to a drug rehabilitation center for compulsory drug treatment.
On the way to the drug rehabilitation center, Li Guifang kept crying that she still had a three-year-old child at home who needed her to take care of, and begged the police to let her go back and settle the child before going for drug rehabilitation.
However, probably accustomed to the lies of addicts, the police did not respond to Li Guifang's crying.
Even if the police officer Huang Xiaobing had verified that what Li Guifang said was true and was not suitable for compulsory drug rehabilitation, Deputy Director Wang Xin was not moved.
Although Li Guifang's drug abuse and stealing behavior are hateful, her love for her children as a mother is sincere.
Seeing that the police were not moved by her crying, Li Guifang even slammed her head on the car door, and then begged the police to let her call her sister to arrange the child's life.
This time, the police agreed to her request, but her sister's phone calls went unanswered three times.
Seeing this, Li Guifang became more and more troublesome, and the police had no choice but to call the Tuanjie Village Police Station, that is, Li Guifang's police station.
Unexpectedly, the person who answered the phone was a college student who had just come to the institute for an internship, who did not know how to deal with similar incidents, and did not realize the seriousness of the matter, so he simply made a record on the blackboard and did not report it.
The next day, the cleaner in charge of the duty room routinely cleaned up and wiped the blackboard clean, so no one knew about Li Guifang.
3. The girl starved to death at home
However, it was the handwriting that disappeared on the blackboard that made Xiao Siyi, who was only three years old, lose the care of her relatives and finally starved to death at home.
Li Guifang spent a night in the drug rehabilitation center, and the first thing she said when she saw the police the next day was: "Is my child settled?"
The police said that although they did not contact their relatives directly, they had already called the police station in their jurisdiction, and someone would be responsible for contacting relatives to take care of the children.
Hearing this, Li Guifang's hanging heart fell to the ground and began compulsory drug rehabilitation.
However, in the following days, Xiao Siyi was trapped at home every day helplessly waiting for her mother's return, and she didn't know what was going on, just lying on the window and looking out as usual.
The neighbors often saw her in the house, and they didn't think about anything else, but as usual, they gave her a little bit of something delicious, and both parties were used to feeding and being fed.
Every time she saw her expectant eyes, a kind neighbor would say to her, "Siyi, mom will be back soon." ”
This three-year-old girl will also gobble up the food handed to her by her neighbor while sensibly thanking her uncle and aunt.
In this way, without the knowledge of all the neighbors and relatives, Xiao Siyi endured the loneliness that even adults could not bear, and spent day after day in the dark.
Because there was only a small crack in the window, more food could not be handed in, and Li Guifang often locked the children at home, which caused the neighbors to be accustomed to it, and Xiao Siyi couldn't eat enough at all during that time only relying on snacks fed by well-wishers.
Seventeen days passed, and the neighbors smelled a foul smell in the hallway, so they began to look for the source of the stench, and finally stopped at the door of the house where Xin Yi lived.
After shouting through the window for a long time and no one responded, the neighbors called the police.
But when the police arrived at the scene and broke in, everything in front of them shocked everyone present. Xiao Siyi's body was found in the bedroom, only to see that her hair had fallen out, her body was rotting and emitting a foul smell, and the ground was full of maggots running out of her body.
Forensic examination: Li Siyi died of starvation, and the obvious scratches on the body prove that the three-year-old child also tried to struggle and survive before he died.
One can imagine how desperate and helpless she was for a three-year-old child to endure hunger and pain that ordinary people could not accept before she died.
She must have cried and shouted for her mother in those ten nights, and she cried and cried with tears on her face and fell asleep.
Xiao Siyi's death was shocking and aroused the attention of people from all walks of life.
In the end, the case-handling personnel related to Li Guifang's drug abuse case were all punished by law for dereliction of duty.
Wang Xin was sentenced to three years in prison, Huang Xiaobing was sentenced to two years in prison, and Li Guifang's police station intern was expelled from school, but no one's punishment could be exchanged for that young and fresh life.
The sin of this child's misfortune is anger and heartache.
Such a lovely child, but with a mother who is both a drug addict and a thief......
Li Guifang, who learned that her daughter had passed away, became crying and laughing, and her spirit was abnormal.
Later, she often sat in front of her daughter's grave in a daze, perhaps repenting of her incompetence as a mother, or perhaps recalling the bits and pieces of being with her daughter.
Sometimes she would cry in front of her daughter's grave, and her mouth kept muttering, "I'm sorry, my mother hurt you." ”
However, no matter how much repentance and crying looks pale in front of Xiao Siyi's cold tombstone, she will never be able to make up for the lack of love for her daughter.
She engraved on her daughter's tombstone: "Child, if life is an accident and death is fate, then what a terrible misunderstanding it is for you to leave gently......"