In July 2003, a Beijing urban evening newspaper reported a touching story about a 16-year-old girl.
According to the report, the little girl named "An Tong" is from Inner Mongolia and has loved vocal music since childhood, but because of her disability and leukemia, she cannot go to school. In order to treat her illness, she came to Beijing alone and sang in the underground passage to make money.
As soon as the report came out, this disabled little girl immediately caused a great response in the society, and many caring people and enterprises have reached out to donate money and materials to this disabled little girl.
Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu also saw the report, the two were deeply moved by the deeds of "An Tong", in order to help Liu An Tong, the two took her to the family and decided to take on the heavy responsibility of taking care of her from life.
Liu Antong lived in Mr. Hou's house, and the well-behaved and sensible "An Tong" affectionately called Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu "brother and sister".
This little girl with two pigtails, big innocent eyes and a childish face told her brother and sister her story: she had a rough life since she was born, and she was abandoned by her biological parents, but thanks to her adoptive parents, she had a home.
However, she suffered from aplastic anemia when she was a teenager, and her legs were also disabled due to illness, and she had to rely on crutches to move.
But strong she did not succumb to fate, she liked to sing since she was a child, versatile, admission to art school has always been her dream, so she came to Beijing, hoping to rely on her own singing to make money, one day to realize her dream of study.
Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu were deeply moved by Liu Antong's narration, and they were touched by her tenacious will to live and promised "Antong" that from now on she would no longer have to work hard to earn money, but only to recuperate well, practice the piano and sing well, and let them earn money for her to live and treat her illness.
In interviews with various media, Liu Antong was moved to say that her brother and sister's work is not stable, making money is very hard, in order to reduce the burden of her brother and sister, she often takes advantage of the fact that her brother and sister are not at home to secretly run out to sing and make money.
Once, because it took a long time to find her, her brother and sister were in a hurry, and the brother who was worried about her body slapped her in a hurry, and the three of them hugged their headaches and cried.
Under Liu Antong's constant rendering, her attention is increasing, and an art school in Shijiazhuang decided to admit her to help her realize her musical dreams.
So Liu Antong left Beijing and came to Shijiazhuang.
But at school, teachers and classmates found that she didn't seem to be thinking about learning, spending a lot of money, which didn't match the inspirational image of the disabled and determined to learn in the report.
After only a month at school, Liu Antong left school and returned to his brother and sister's home in Beijing.
This time, Liu Antong brought back a person, saying that he was his sister and also temporarily stayed at Mr. Hou's house.
One night, Liu Antong, who was asleep, suddenly trembled and her hands and feet moved wildly, startling her brother and sister and quickly waking her up.
Liu Antong, who woke up, looked dazed, and then the sisters who returned with her mysteriously called Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu aside and told them that Liu Antong was not a normal person, she was a "reincarnated spirit child" who came down from heaven, and her adoptive mother was "Seven Fairies".
Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu will be suspicious.
The next day, Liu Antong told Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu that she came down from heaven and that the reason why she was sick was because many ghosts from had to suck her blood, and her sister was also haunted by ghosts.
Liu Antong told her brother and sister that in order to save her life, she must have an amulet on her body, and with the amulet, those ghosts would not dare to provoke her, and this amulet would cost 12,000 yuan to make.
Liu Antong's colorful narration made Ms. Liu frightened, at this time she had been completely brainwashed by Liu Antong, she immediately took 12,000 yuan from the bank and handed it to Liu Antong as a talisman and carried it on her body.
Liu Antong saw that her brother and sister were so easily deceived, and quickly came up with a new trick, she said that her heavenly mother gave her a dream to help her heal her disabled leg, but she must first build a "lotus platform" to do things.
Poor Mr. Hou and Madam Liu have been confused these days by the series of behaviors of this so-called "reincarnated spirit child" god and ghost. The two took out 20,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan respectively and handed them to Liu Antong.
A month later, the new trick came again, and Liu Antong said that the gods in the sky told her that Ms. Liu had done something wrong one day, said the wrong thing, and must take out money to eliminate the disaster, otherwise she would be taken away by the gods.
Ms. Liu, who was convinced, was frightened, did not dare to delay for a moment, went home to find her parents to ask for 50,000 yuan, handed over to Liu Antong, this farce can be stopped.
Liu Antong not only cheated on her brothers and sisters who were kind enough to help her, but also used her pitiful image to deceive the love of many people in society, many kind people donated money and materials to her after hearing about her encounter, and many people donated money to the art school that admitted her out of the box to help her complete her studies, but these donations were squandered by her in various names.
After living together for half a year, Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu gradually discovered liu antong's suspicious place, they first found that her illness was not as serious as she said, and Mr. Liu found that there was no wound in the place where Liu Antong often wrapped in gauze by chance.
Although Liu Antong has a baby face and a mouth that emits the doll sounds of a teenage girl, the maturity and sophistication often exposed on her face often make Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu puzzled.
Liu Antong saw the suspicion of the two, and one day six months later, she and the sister she brought with her ran away. At this time, Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu had been cheated out of 120,000 yuan by her.
The two men, who had just woken up from a dream, quickly reported the case to the public security organs.
On June 13, 2007, Liu Antong was arrested by the police in Shijiazhuang.
On August 1, criminal suspect Liu Antong was arrested with the approval of the Beijing Daxing District Procuratorate on suspicion of fraud.
After investigation, the public security organs confirmed that Liu Antong was born on December 23, 1971, and his household registration is located in Garutu Town, Wushen Banner, Inner Mongolia, and is the adopted daughter of a couple.
Liu Antong married in Inner Mongolia at the age of 21 and divorced her husband in 1995 at the age of 24.
Liu Antong, who did not have a formal job and wanted to get rich all day, came into contact with some movie CDs about "witchcraft" by chance, and she decided to use these crooked ways to cheat money without learning any tricks.
Liu Antong has a baby face, speaks sweetly, like a girl, often mistaken for an underage girl, she decided to use her own characteristics to gain people's trust, and then find an opportunity to defraud money.
She dressed herself up as a teenage girl and declared herself 15 years old.
Liu Antong has a slight disability since childhood, and taking advantage of this feature, she bought herself a pair of crutches and came to Beijing to sing in the underground passage to earn money.
With her able to speak and sweet voice and a poor girl's image, Liu Antong quickly won people's sympathy, and Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu were even more touched by her inspirational spirit, taking her to her home to take care of her life meticulously, which created convenient conditions for Liu Antong to carry out fraud in the future.
During a period of living with Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu, she began by acting like an empathetic little sister, and after gaining their trust, she began to scam.
After trial and judicial appraisal, the court held that although Liu Antong suffered from hysteria, she had full capacity for responsibility when she committed the illegal act.
On May 14, 2009, the Daxing District Court held a hearing on Liu Antong's fraud case.
In court, Liu Antong, who is petite, wears two braids and has a child's voice, does look like a 15- or 6-year-old underage girl at first glance.
Liu Antong played a rogue with the court's accusation that she was pretending to be a ghost and cheating money, saying that those were all casually talked about and played, and she did not expect That Ms. Liu and Mr. Hou to believe it so easily.
In response to her brother and sister's accusations against her, she even said grievously: Why don't you remember the happiness and joy we had when we were together?
In court, Liu Antong fully demonstrated to people the acting skills she had practiced, she sometimes covered her face and cried, sometimes pretended to be stupid, sometimes spoiled and cute, and even wanted to sing a song for the judges, which was really ugly.
But the legal net was restored, and there was no omission, and all of Liu Antong's cunning arguments were so pale and powerless in the face of the solemn law.
In September 2009, the Daxing District Court convicted Liu Antong of fraud in accordance with relevant laws and sentenced him to 10 years in prison and a fine of 10,000 yuan.
Liu Antong appealed against the verdict, and in November 2009, the Beijing Intermediate People's Court upheld the original judgment.
10 years have passed, presumably Liu Antong has been released from prison, and now she should be 46 or 7 years old, 10 years in prison, I don't know if she has any remorse for her absurdity?
In fact, if you think about Liu Antong's deception, what kind of "spirit child" in the sky, what "seven fairies", although she said it was amazing, but a little knowledge, especially the highly educated young people is easy to see at a glance. But why were Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu so easily deceived?
The deceiver Liu Antong first disguised himself as an underage girl, most people think that minors have simple minds, rarely have any defensive psychology against them, Liu Antong has seized this psychology of people, when Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu have trusted her, she began to pretend to be a ghost, and Mr. Hou and Ms. Liu could not imagine that a 15- or 6-year-old child could have such a bad mind to deceive people, so the two people who originally scorned those feudal superstitious things were easily put on the set.
The Liu Antong fraud case reminds good people that when they give love, they should also polish their eyes, and do not be consumed by some unscrupulous people and blind their faith.
Scammers are caught endlessly, and deceptions emerge in an endless stream, especially in the countryside, feudal superstitious things that pretend to be gods and ghosts, and there is a market, all of which remind us that popularizing scientific and cultural knowledge and breaking the trust of feudal fans is heavy and long.
Society needs trust, and when the love of good people is deceived, it is easy to cause a person or even a group of people to doubt the dedication of their love, causing a bad impact.
Therefore, for a scammer like Liu Antong, the law can be sentenced as appropriate, because she is not just as simple as defrauding one or two people, she makes people doubt whether they still have compassion for the weak and release love, which is a big blow to the moral norms of society.
The law is fair, Liu Antong paid the price for her illegal behavior, I believe that 10 years of time, enough to let her understand that the bottom line of social morality can not be touched, wanton consumption of people's love, trampling on laws and regulations, is bound to pay a heavy price.