His Cohabiting Partner Left Home, and He Took His Two Young Daughters to Commit Suicide by Burning Charcoal

A family tragedy here, a suicide that took the lives of THREE total, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

An unemployed electrician, Lai was suspected of his cohabiting partner, Lin’s leaving home after they had a fight, five days ago, he took their two young daughters out, and sent the photos of “a small wash basin, charcoal” to Lin, Lin thought Lai was using that same old trick, so she’d, ignored him.  The police and family members found Lai’s car in the city of Taichung, found that he’d taken his young daughters and committed suicide.

The coroners and police’s preliminary investigations found Lai was found dead in the driver’s seat, his two young daughters on the back, with the basin of burned up charcoal inside the car, all three didn’t show any external injuries, they’d estimated that they’d been dead for over 24 hours.

The Department of Social Services in the city of Taichung stated, that because Lai wasn’t with a stable source of income, four years ago, his family was reported as being high-risk; a year later after the registry, Lai found a job, and because of his household economics had improved, they’d taken him off the “watch list”.  In the past two years, there had been four domestic calls, but every time the social workers came to visit the home, his cohabiting partner always told them “we’d made up”, that there wasn’t a need for a restraining order.

The police found, that Lai had two children with his ex-wife, later as he started cohabiting with Lin, they’d had two daughters, the family of six lived together.  Three months ago, Lai became unemployed, and because the household economics getting tight, he’d often argued with Lin; last month on the 28^th after they had a fight, Lin got angry and left, went to Kaohsiung to live with a relative.

Lai’s eldest daughter told, that after Lin left, her father started drinking away his miseries, and had stayed out and not come home a lot, sometimes, he’d taken her two younger sisters out; on the morning of the twelfth, she’d found her father not at home, and the grandfather got a call from the kids’ school, that her “younger sister didn’t show today”, she found that something wasn’t quite right, and two evenings ago, she’d gone to the police with her second eldest uncle.  The police tracked down the GPS on the cell phone, and at one in the morning yesterday, they’d found Lai’s sedan in Fugui Road in Tanzi District.

As Lin got the news of death, she’d rushed to the funeral home, wiping her tears; the police found, that on the 13^th and the 14^th, Lai had texted Lin multiple times, including, “It’s raining now, we need to get going now.”, with the photos of charcoal, and the basin.  Lin cried and told the officers, that Lai had attempted suicide twice previously, she’d believed he wouldn’t hurt their young daughter, that was why she’d not called the police on his last two suicide attempts.

And so, this man still cracked, and, the fact that his cohabiting partner left home was merely the LAST straw, and, this could’ve been prevented (once again!!!), but it still wasn’t!