Mother killed son out of poverty, cried throughout 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 that besides farming, she had no other job. When her husband fell seriously ill, Su had to borrow money at high interest to pay for his treatment. When her husband passed away, Su and her son fell into dire straits.

Finding no way out, the widow came up with the idea of ​​killing her son, then dying with her daughter. This idea was sparked 20 days after Su's husband passed away.

"The defendant thought that if she died alone it would be simple, but if she left her child behind there would be no one to 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 her son Nguyen Chien Thang (11 years old) 2 sleeping pills to take 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 in the back of the neck by his mother. Pulling the victim back, the woman beat him until he passed out and then covered his face with a blanket. Thang was determined to have died of 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