The case of an 8-year-old girl being abused: Did "step-aunt" and her biological father receive the appropriate sentence?

Authorities determined Trang's behavior was dangerous to society.

On May 4, the People's Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City issued an indictment and prosecuted before the People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City to try Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang (27 years old, from Gia Lai) for murder and abusing others, Nguyen Kim Trung Thai (37 years old, living in District 1) is guilty of torturing others and hiding crimes.

During the process of living together, due to anger that Thai's family did not allow Thai to marry him and Thai did not want to have children together, during his stay at home with his nephew A. studied online (from December 7, 2021 to 22). -12-2021), Trang used her hands, feet, wooden sticks, whips, metal rods (connecting pipes of vacuum cleaners) to brutally kill grandson A. in many ways, for hours and days.

Trang also used ropes to tie her hands and feet until VA was exhausted, but still forced her to kneel to study, study and drink water while kneeling. When her niece was kneeling, Trang used her hand to slap her niece's head, causing her niece to be exhausted...

On December 22, 2021, VA stayed at home to study online with Trang, Thai went to work. During the teaching process, Trang forced A. to kneel to check the lesson, beat him, kick him in the stomach and hips with his feet. At 15:00 on the same day, Thai watched the camera and saw that Trang beat A. so she called home to tell Trang not to hit anymore and then hung up.

At 18:00 on the same day, Trang saw that A. was unconscious, so she called Thai home. When he returned, Thai gave first aid to A. and then brought him to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, child A. later died.

While A. was being treated by doctors, Thai went home and logged into the camera management account and deleted all the data of 4 cameras in the house. Autopsy results showed that the girl had a hematoma under the skin of the right frontal forehead, with mild cerebral edema; There are many old wounds, broken ribs 2, 3, 4 on the right... Meanwhile, the conclusion of forensic examination of the body of the Criminal Technical Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, the cause of death of grandchild A due to acute pulmonary edema due to traumatic shock.

Thai is the one who directly nurtures and takes care of grandson A., seeing Trang beat and torture for many days and hours but remains indifferent, does not prevent or take any action to protect and protect her child. At times, Thai even beat with Trang and helped Trang to torture A.

According to the VKS, when knowing that Trang beat A. to death, Thai performed the act of deleting camera data to conceal Trang's criminal behavior, hindering the investigation. All the acts of Trang and Thai caused discontent among the people and condemned by public opinion. Therefore, it is necessary to strictly handle before the law to deter, educate and prevent.

Equipment prosecuted under Clause 1, Article 123 of the current Penal Code, has the highest penalty of death. Besides, the prosecutor's office determined that the female accused committed the crime with a despicable motive, with a hooligan nature. Quynh Trang once went to the house of the 8-year-old girl's mother, forbidding Ms. H. to see her child. The "step aunt" also went to Thai's Facebook account to delete all pictures of Ms. H..

The authorities determined that Trang's behavior was dangerous to society, was done with intentional error, committed by a person with criminal capacity, and infringed on life, health, dignity, and reputation. human intentions. Criminal acts of a barbaric and cruel nature have a great impact on public opinion and adversely affect social order and safety.

Nguyen Kim Trung Thai was prosecuted at Point a, Clause 2, Article 140 of the crime of "Torturing others" and point b, Clause 1, Article 389 of "Concealing a crime".

Ms. NTH (the mother of VA) also sent an application to the Ho Chi Minh City Police, the People's Procuracy of Ho Chi Minh City, the Police of Binh Thanh District, requesting an increase in the punishment for Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang and Nguyen Kim Trung Thai for murder and murder. killing others after the Binh Thanh District Police prosecuted Trang for the crime of "tortured others".

Regarding the incident, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Duong Anh Duc requested the Ho Chi Minh City Police to urgently coordinate with the Binh Thanh District Police to clarify the murder case and strictly handle the individuals involved.

The case of an 8-year-old girl being abused: The nanny was asked to be summoned to the court Rosu00e908:13:55 12/05/2022Accordingly, 6 people were proposed to be summoned to attend the trial. Regarding the case of "step-aunt" and her father's violent abuse of an 8-year-old girl to death, the investigating agency has recently completed an indictment, in which in addition to 283 video files and...