Driven to murder her own young, by a superstitious belief, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
A woman, Wu, in Taidong cohabited with a foreign man, she got pregnant, and during her pregnancy, she’d felt multiple contractions, and believed, that she was carrying a “ghost”. The male infant was born over just a month, and Wu, because he’d cried endlessly, she was suspected of slapping her own child to death, but she feared retaliation from the infant, she’d rode the trains from Taoyuan, took the body of her son, to her hometown of Taidong to dispose of, and she’s indicted by the D.A. based off of death caused by abuse and abandoning, disposing of the body.
The police investigated that Wu (age 30), was not in stable mental conditions, and held the beliefs of possessions and souls. She’d cohabited with her foreign boyfriend in Taoyuan and gotten pregnant, and, during her pregnancy, she felt the discomforts, and believed, that the child she was carrying was an enemy from a past life, reincarnating, for the sake of taking revenge on her.
After the infant boy was born, he’d cried often, this put Wu under even more psychological distress. Two years ago, on the afternoon of January 10th, Wu got really annoyed at the crying child, she’d gotten angered and slapped the infant, causing his head to hit something hard, and his skull fractured. Wu did not take the infant to the hospital, she’d gone out shopping, and when she’d come back home, she’d found the infant to have turned cold and was dead, she feared that he may come back to haunt her, she’d started planning the dumping of his body, some four hundred kilometers away.
Wu placed the infant’s corpse inside a black suitcase, rode the train back to Taidong, abandoned the body on the tomato plantation that her grandfather used to own. On the afternoon of the 27th of the same month, a woman, Yeh passed through the plantation and smelled something rotten, and was shocked to discover the body of the infant, crawling with maggots, she’d notified the landowner, Wu, to call the police.
The D.A. believed, that the infant’s corpse was dragged out and gnawed down by stray dogs, and the forensic pathologists found the cause of death to be external forces causing the bone fractures. The officers found the robe of a OBGYN in Taoyuan, and they’d skimmed and scanned through over a hundred of newborn infants, and found, that after Wu gave birth, she’d not taken her son in for his shots, that this was, very suspicious.
The police called Wu to the station several times but she’d never shown up, the Taidong District Attorney’s Office issued an arrest warrant. Last October, as Wu was shopping around at the night markets in Taidong, she was arrested, and, she’d felt, relieved, as the police officers took her in, admitted, that the dead infant boy was her son, but he was, the reincarnate of a “ghost”, she’d had to, take care of him, and, on the other hand, she’d had to worry about, the reincarnation, retaliating toward her, that she was, tortured; the D.A. said, her belief was wayward.
And so, this, is how a stubborn thought, can end up, murdering an innocent child, and, because the baby won’t stop crying, you got it into your head, that he was the devil reincarnate? Which baby doesn’t cry? And, the primary purpose of babies crying would be??? Oh yeah, to COMMUNICATE their needs to you, mothers, because you cannot expect a newborn infant to call out to you: “hey yo, old lady, I’m WET, change me!”, can you? Of course N-O-T, and in this particular case, this woman’s superstition was the culprit behind her, murdering her own son.
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