Mother killed son out of poverty and cried throughout the trial

Her husband died and she had no money to pay her debts. The woman thought of committing suicide and killing her child to be freed.

On September 15, Hanoi People's Court brought defendant Nguyen Thi Su (34 years old, in Tien Duoc commune, Soc Son district) to trial for murder.

From the beginning of the trial until the end, Su kept crying. Occasionally, she looked down at the end of the room, seeking comfort and forgiveness from her family.

The defendant was charged with murder. Photo: Cong Ly.

In court, the mother who killed her son said she had no other job besides farming. When her husband fell seriously ill, Su had to borrow money at interest to pay for his treatment. When her husband passed away, Su and her son fell into dire straits.

With no way out, the widow decided to kill her son and then her daughter. This idea was sparked 20 days after Su's husband passed away.

"The defendant thought it would be simple to die alone, but if she left her child behind, no one would take care of her, so she had a crazy thought and wanted the three of them to die together," Su sobbed.

According to the defendant's testimony, her children are all obedient, loving and loving children.

According to the accusation, at noon on December 14, 2015, Su gave two sleeping pills to her son Nguyen Chien Thang (11 years old) and then went to sleep. When her daughter woke up to go to school, she confided in him some words that made the 11-year-old boy cry. "Now our family is in too much debt, the house is about to be taken away, I'm at the end of my rope. If I did anything wrong to you today, please forgive me," Su confided before committing the crime.

The boy ran away after being repeatedly hit on the back of the neck by his mother. The woman pulled him back and beat him until he fainted, then covered his face with a blanket. Thang was determined to have died from suffocation.

In his final words at today's trial, Su said he was very remorseful and asked the panel of judges to consider and reduce his sentence.

At the end of the trial, the judge sentenced Su to 18 years in prison for murder.

According to Zing.vn