Value of Human Life

Chinese mother strangles newborn, throws baby out hotel window

By Dave Andrusko

The baby was found at the site above in a carrier bag by a couple passing by and died later in hospital.

The Daily Mail, borrowing from reportage in the People’s Daily Online, ran a story today of an 18 year old Chinese girl who strangled her newborn, wrapped the eight-month-old baby in a plastic bag, before throwing her son out the window.

According to the Daily Mail’s Olivia Chan, “A couple found the infant in the nearby construction site not long after, but the baby passed away in hospital.”
Li Hui, a resident of Guangzhou, South China, blamed her unthinkable behavior on her childhood.
Chan reports that Li became pregnant in December 2013 which she did not know until the following February. By then she had broken up with the baby’s father. She then borrowed money from her ex-boyfriend’s father, ostensibly to abort the child, but instead spent the money on partying and drinking.

“I just thought if I don’t think about the child, the problem will go away because there is always a solution at the end,” Li said.

When she was seven to eight months pregnant, Li met her next boyfriend. He asked the obvious question–was she pregnant–but she attributed her size to her physique and a “tumor.” The new boyfriend never doubted Lin, Chan reported.
In October 2014, the couple was staying in a hospital when Li woke up with stomach pains and later gave birth in the toilet. According to Chan

Li said she fainted during labour and when she woke up, she could see blood all over the floor and the baby crying. She went for a shower and stood by the baby for twenty minutes trying to figure out what to do

Then Li did the unthinkable. She strangled the baby, put him in a plastic carrier bag and tossed him out the window.

The July 9 trial only lasted an hour and Li Hui could not stop sobbing. Chan reports that Li told the judge, “’I did not know how to handle the situation,” as her mother and her elderly grandmother sat in the spectator stand. “According to the court, Li suffered from severe depression and received psychotherapy after killing her baby and becoming suicidal.”
Chan concluded her story by noting that a sentence has not yet been announced. “The prosecutor asked the judge to give her a chance to rehabilitate as she begged for an opportunity to start over.”

Source: NRLC News