The young girl Wu was stripped and beaten. Photo/Courtesy of the victim's family
On December 5, the highly publicized murder of a Shenmu maiden was pronounced at the Intermediate People's Court of Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. Among them, 17-year-old Yang was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the remaining 5 minors were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three years and six months to fifteen years.
At the same time, the legal representatives of the 6 minors compensated the plaintiffs in the attached civil lawsuit for economic losses of 35,591.3 yuan, and were jointly and severally liable for compensation.
The father of the victim, Wu Mou, told Xiaoxiang Morning News that he was not satisfied with the verdict and would appeal. "Because the criminal suspect in the verdict did not have Han Moumou, a prostitute involved in the case, and he was still at large, he was not held criminally responsible this time."
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter combed through the verdict and found that in September last year, there were 5 minors - Yang Mou (female), He Mou (female), Zhang Mou (male), Qiao Mou (male), Bai Mou (male) forcing Wu into prostitution, and then killing Wu.
In the process, they used "slapping", "smoking with a belt", "forcing undressing", "punching and kicking", "brick hitting the neck", "scalding with cigarette butts" and so on. Finally, together with Li (male), they dismembered and buried the body of the deceased.
Detail 1: The beating lasted for 5 hours
At about 15:00 on the afternoon of September 23 last year, Yang, Bai and He forced 15-year-old Wu to go to a room in a hotel in Shenmu City to prostitute himself. After that, the prostitute refused to pay Yang the remaining prostitutes.
At about 17:00 on the same day, Yang, Bai, He, Zhang, and Qiao took Wu to their temporary residence. Yang and Bai slapped Wu in the bedroom on the east side of the second floor on the grounds that Wu deceived them, and then Yang and He pulled out their belts, and the 3 people took turns to beat Wu with belts, during which Yang forced Wu to take off his coat and pants.
After that, Zhang and Qiao also entered the bedroom and beat Wu with a belt. Yang took off Wu's suspender corset again, and He and Bai used knives to cut off Wu's underwear and rip it off.
Despite Wu's pleas for forgiveness, the 5 people continued to take turns beating the victim Wu with a belt and foot, and Bai also hit Wu's head and neck with bricks, burned Wu with cigarette butts, and kicked Wu down, causing Wu's head to hit the radiator.
The beating lasted 5 hours. At about 22:00 that night, 5 people slept in the living room and bedroom, because Wu was crying and crawling, Yang and Zhang beat Wu with belts and slippers. After Zhang and Qiao carried Wu to the living room sofa.
Detail two: dismemberment and burial after dismemberment
The next morning, Yang found wu dead, and the 5 people dug a pit on the wasteland next to a highway in Shenmu Town to prepare to bury Wu, but they were worried that the body would be found during the day.
That night, 5 people met Li while surfing the Internet in an Internet café and told him about it.
At noon on the 25th, the 6 people returned to the temporary residence together, and Li, Qiao and Bai used daggers to cut Off Wu's two legs from their knees.
Then the 3 people and Zhang tied Wu's body with quilts, sheets, blankets, ropes, etc., into two snakeskin bags, and cleaned up the blood stains in the room.
In the end, they put Wu's clothes and the belt that beat Wu in garbage bags and discarded them and buried them.
Detail three: stealing villagers' tobacco, alcohol and eggs
Not long after the killing of Wu, 4 of the 6 underage men came to Li's home in Shenmu City.
On the afternoon of October 2, Li and Zhang came to a villager's home, Zhang let the wind blow on the roof, Li climbed over the wall, climbed the window to enter the room, stole 9 boxes of cigarettes and left.
The next afternoon, Li gang, Zhang, Qiao, and Bai came to the villagers' homes again, and Zhang and Qiao let the wind blow on the roof, and Li and Bai climbed over the wall and the window to enter the room.
A total of eight bottles of wine, three copper wine glasses, a toy knife, a string of Buddhist beads, a necklace with a jade pendant, and a number of eggs were stolen.
After the court trial facts, the tobacco, alcohol, eggs, etc. stolen by the 4 people were eaten and drunk, and other items were hidden in Li's home and seized.
Detail 4: Forcing classmates to engage in prostitution is charged 2,000 at a time
In early October of the same year, Yang, He, and Bai discussed using other people's prostitution to make money.
On the 14th, He asked his classmate, Li Moumou (14 years old), to go shopping.
Later, 3 people tricked Mr. Li into going to a river embankment in Shenmu City, and used intimidation and beating methods to force Mr. Li to engage in prostitution once at a price of 2,000 yuan in a hotel in Shenmu City.
The next day, when Yang, He, and Bai were getting a haircut, Li Moumou used his stomach pain as an excuse to borrow a mobile phone from the hotel alone, contacted his father, and told the location.
After his father called the police, the police found Li Moumou in the hotel.
Detail 5: The 17-year-old defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter noted that in the judgment, the family of the deceased Wu Mou demanded that the 6 defendants be held criminally responsible for intentional homicide and compensate 3 million yuan for economic losses.
The court ruled that the defendant Yang Mou (now 17 years old) committed intentional homicide, sentenced him to life imprisonment, committed the crime of forced prostitution, sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment and fined 5,000 yuan, and decided to carry out the life sentence and fine him 5,000 yuan.
Defendant Bai X (now 15 years old) committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment; defendant He X (now 16 years old) committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment; defendant Qiao X (now 16 years old) committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment.
Defendant Zhang Mou (now 15 years old) committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment; for robbery, he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined 2,000 yuan, and the combined decision was to carry out the fixed-term imprisonment for 12 years and eight months and a fine of 2,000 yuan.
Defendant Li Mou (now 18 years old) committed theft and was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment and fined 2,000 yuan, and for the crime of helping to destroy evidence, sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and the combined decision was to carry out the fixed-term imprisonment of three years and six months, and fined 2,000 yuan.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Liao Ruyun Intern Zhao Hongjie Yang Liying Zhu Wenjing Lin Yingxian
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