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By: EFE
Wednesday, November 20
Chinese man sentenced to death for killing his two sons with his new partner
A court of the central Chinese city of Chongqing sentenced a man to death for killing, from a fifteenth floor, his two children in collaboration with his new partner , who has also received the maximum penalty, reports the local press.
The court assured that the double intentional homicide, led to held on November 2, 2020, was “extremely cruel” and crossed “all lines of law and morality”, indicates the Sohu news portal.
The two brothers, a two-year-old girl and a one-year-old child , died after falling from a great height in what seemed at first an accident.
However, the Police determined in the investigation that the children were deliberately dumped and that the main suspect was the father, Zhang Bo .
Zhang started a relationship with the second defendant, Ye Chengduan, in April 2019, shortly after divorcing the victims’ mother.
Ye pressured Zhang to get rid of the children because neither she nor her family could accept a relationship with a man who already had children, the media reported
According to the children’s mother, at the trial Zhang assured that, at the time of the events, she was having a video call with Ye, who, making herself courteous on his wrists, he threatened to commit suicide if he did not kill his children, after which the condemned man threw them out of the window of his apartment.
court considers that the murder is the result of a conspiracy between Zhang and Ye . The Chinese authorities do not provide official data on the number of those sentenced to death, but in their report on the death penalty of 2020, The human rights organization Amnesty International pointed out that “it is believed that thousands of executions were carried out” in the Asian country.
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