Beijing News (reporter Bo Qiyu) Jiang Mouyuan, a 33-year-old man in Quanzhou, Guangxi Province, was bumped into by a neighbor's little girl when he was stealing from a neighbor's house, and Jiang Mouyuan, fearing that the matter would be exposed, forcibly took the girl home, and killed her after molesting the girl in the cellar of his home. On November 7, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the girl's family that recently, they received a first-instance judgment from the Guilin Intermediate People's Court, and Jiang Mouyuan was sentenced to death and immediately executed.
On October 20, 2021, the Guilin Intermediate People's Court rendered a first-instance judgment. Courtesy of respondents
The man molested and killed an 11-year-old girl from a neighbor
At about 12:00 on May 11, 2020, the girl's father went to the Jeonju County Public Security Bureau to report that his daughter had been missing for 24 hours and had not been found, and that her daughter was 11 years old at the time, introverted, would not argue with her family, and had been staying at home before she disappeared.
According to the first-instance judgment of the Guilin Intermediate People's Court, defendant Jiang Mouyuan was 33 years old at the time and was a neighbor of the same village as the family of the murdered girl. At about 11:00 on May 10, 2020, Jiang Mouyuan went to the girl's house to steal, was bumped into by the girl, Jiang Mouyuan was afraid that the matter would be exposed, forcibly carried the girl to his old house, pinched his neck, covered his mouth and nose until the girl stopped struggling, Jiang Mouyuan thought that the girl was dead, and threw the girl into the cellar in the room.
When Jiang Mouyuan went down to the cellar to prepare to dispose of the body, he found that the girl was not dead, and then committed an indecent act on the girl, and then squeezed the girl's neck with both hands. Subsequently, Jiang Mouyuan used a woven bag to pack the girl's body and throw it to the broken wall of another next-door neighbor's old house. At about 10 o'clock that night, Jiang Mouyuan dragged the girl's body to the garbage pit for burial. At about 10 p.m. the next day, in order to ensure that the body was not found, Jiang Mouyuan went to the burial place to cover some mud and garbage. During the day on May 12, 2020, Jiang Mouyuan saw public security officers searching for the water canal where the body was buried, fearing that the body would be found, and that night he carried tools to transfer the girl's body to a pit on the edge of a neighboring village for burial.
On May 13, the girl's body was found, and Jiang Mouyuan was also arrested by the local police. The police seized two shotguns, a barrel, a bottle of gunpowder, and a bottle of sand in Jiang Mouyuan's home, both of which can be fired normally, and both are guns powered by gunpowder.
The murdered girl was identified as having died of mechanical asphyxia with head injury.
The cellar of defendant Jiang Mouyuan's family. Courtesy of respondents
The court sentenced the murderer to death immediately in the first instance
On November 19, 2020, the Guilin Municipal People's Procuratorate of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region filed a public prosecution with the Guilin Intermediate People's Court against defendant Jiang Mouyuan for intentional homicide, child molestation, and illegal possession of firearms. On January 20, 2021, the Guilin Intermediate People's Court held a trial of the case, during which the trial was suspended on the same day because the defendant Jiang Mouyuan suddenly fell ill and was unable to continue the trial. On September 2 of the same year, the court resumed trial.
During the trial, defendant Jiang Mouyuan argued that he had epilepsy and a second-degree intellectual disability, pleaded guilty and accepted punishment, and hoped to be given a lighter punishment. Jiang Mouyuan's defender put forward a defense opinion, saying that the defendant had epilepsy, but the appraisal had full capacity for criminal responsibility and lacked objectivity. Defendant Jiang Mouyuan is a second-degree intellectual disability and is a mentally ill person who has not completely lost the ability to recognize or control his own behavior, and shall be given a lenient punishment.
The court held that the forensic psychiatric appraisal opinion issued by the judicial laboratory of Guangxi Brain Hospital confirmed that Jiang Mouyuan had a clear consciousness at the time of the crime, his intelligence was basically normal, he was not in the epileptic attack period, his substantive identification and control ability at the time of the crime were normal, and he had full criminal responsibility for the case. The second-degree intellectual disability is severely mentally disabled, it is difficult to take care of itself, the movement and language development is poor, and the ability to communicate with people is also poor, combined with the facts ascertained in this case, the defendant can do normal farm work at home, and also plays cards and gambles with people, discards the gloves, shovels, woven bags and raincoats and other items used when burying and moving the body after the crime, burns the clothes worn during the crime, in order to prevent the matter from being exposed twice, burying the body and transferring the body, indicating that Jiang Mouyuan was conscious and clear-minded when committing the crime, his thinking was normal, and he had the ability to fully identify and control his own behavior, It is not compatible with a second-degree intellectual disability who should be fully criminally responsible in this case.
In the end, the court rendered a judgment on the case, and the defendant Jiang Mouyuan committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to death and deprived of political rights for life; committed child molestation, sentenced to five years and six months in prison; and committed illegal possession of firearms, sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The punishment for several crimes was combined, and it was decided to carry out the death penalty and deprive him of political rights for life.
Edited by Liu Qian
Proofread by Zhao Lin