Summary: Two nights ago [July 23], at about 8:50pm, at the bus stop on the west side of Wudian Road in Daxing District, two men in a car had a dispute with a woman pushing a 2-year-old girl in a stroller. One of the men raised his hand hitting the woman, and afterwards, he took the baby girl out of the stroller and slammed her heavily onto the ground, then fled the scene in his car. After the incident happened, the baby girl was confirmed dead while en route to the hospital.
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| The scene where the incident happened after it was reportedly cleaned up. Photographed by Beijing Times reporter Zhao Siheng. |
A Chinese court has convicted a man of intentional homicide and sentenced him to death for hurling a toddler to the ground because of an argument with her mother over a parking space.
The Beijing court system said in a statement that the 39-year-old Han Lei grabbed the 2-year-old from her carriage and threw her to the ground in the capital.
The girl was severely injured and died days later in a hospital. Han fled the scene on July 23 but police caught him the following day.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Han to death and a second man who drove him away from the scene to five years for attempting to cover up a crime.
The incident horrified the Chinese public.
Han Lei, 39, reportedly told prosecutors he felt so guilty and distressed that he wanted to die, the Beijing News reported.
"I caused such a calamity for the child... please make sure that I am sentenced to death," it quoted him as saying. "I don't want to live any more."
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