On July 3, Wu Junbao, wearing glasses and wearing a blue vest in a detention center, and his former partner Ren Weiqiang appeared in a live webcast video of the court hearing. This is his first public appearance after being arrested in November 2019.
On the morning of the same day, the court of Qingshan Lake District of Nanchang City publicly tried the content of the civil part of the illegal detention case of "Yuzhang Academy". The three victims, Luo Wei, who filed an incidental civil lawsuit, demanded Wu Junbao to publicly apologize and compensate for the losses. These claims were rejected by Wu Junbao.
This is the second hearing of the "Yuzhang Academy" case. On April 29 this year, the criminal part of the case has been tried through online video.
According to Peng Mei News (www.thepaper.cn), the full name of "Yuzhang Academy" is Nanzhang Qingshan Lake District Yuzhang Academy Slim Education School, founded by Wu Junbao in May 2013. In October 2017, "Yuzhang Academy" was exposed to suspected illegal detention of students. After that, the school was closed, and some students reported to the police one after another.
The case was investigated by the Qingshan Lake Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City and transferred to the Qingshan Lake District Procuratorate for review and prosecution in January 2020. The chairman of the "Yuzhang Academy" Wu Junbao, the principal Ren Weiqiang and three teachers (instructors) were accused of illegal detention by the public prosecution agency-using the "black room" to imprison new students for about 7 days.
At the end of the trial on July 3, the judge announced that the sentence would be pronounced on July 7.
Wu Junbao refused to apologize, saying "to correct bad behavior" "parental acquiescence"
On the morning of July 3, the case was heard in the First Trial Division of Qingshanhu District Court of Nanchang City. Many volunteers, journalists and former "Yuzhang Academy" students from far away failed to attend the court. The 175-seat trial court only entered 4 observers. Out of consideration for epidemic prevention and control, Wu Junbao and Ren Weiqiang participated in the court hearing through online video in the interrogation room of Nanchang No. 1 Detention Center.
This is a criminal incidental civil lawsuit of "student suing school leaders". As former students of Yuzhang Academy, Luo Wei, 26, and Beibei (screen name), 19, sat in the plaintiff’s seat in the court, while Chen Mouyao, 20, entrusted an attorney to appear in court. They sued Wu Junbao, an investor of Yuzhang Academy, and Luo Wei applied for the addition of the former principal Ren Weiqiang as the defendant.
Luo Wei, Chen Mouyao and Bei Bei, three victims who filed an incidental civil lawsuit, were sent to “Yuzhang Academy” by their parents in 2013, 2015 and 2016 for “remodeling”. "Experience.
The three plaintiffs stated in the "Article 1" in the lawsuit request: they asked the court to order Wu Junbao to apologize publicly.
"Not only to apologize to the three of us, but also to all the students and parents." Beibei, who rushed from Dalian to Nanchang on the evening of July 2, told Peng Mei News that he came to court from afar to ask for "justice" . Luo Wei stated in the complaint that Wu Junbao and Ren Weiqiang were required to publicly apologize on national media and online platforms.
Wu Junbao said in court that Luo Wei and others' claims had the purpose of "hype". "Luo Wei asked me to apologize to the online platform. This is to continue to speculate. I cannot accept it."
In addition to the "open apology", Luo Wei, Beibei, Chen Mouyao also demanded that Wu Junbao and others compensate medical expenses, transportation expenses, follow-up psychological treatment, mental damages and so on, and the three "claims" amounted to 330,000 Yuyuan, 200,000 yuan and 120,000 yuan.
"For the victim, the physical pain is temporary, but the mental injury is long-term and difficult to heal." Luo Cheng's attorney Zhang Cheng said.
Wu Junbao’s attorney said that public apology and compensation for mental damage are not within the scope of the incidental civil lawsuit. In addition, there are no factual and legal basis for the compensation of other losses submitted by the three plaintiffs.
Luo Wei said that some of his treatment invoices were lost many years ago. In the court trial that day, Luo Wei's grandmother and aunt appeared in court to testify that Luo Wei was "yellow-faced and lean" after coming out of "Yuzhang Academy". They often had nightmares. They had accompanied Luo Wei to the hospital and went to a psychiatric institution to treat depression.
Wu Junbao did not agree with this. "He had a mental illness before he came to Yuzhang Academy. Why did it happen on our side?"
Wu Junbao also refuted Beibei's "suicide" statement. This happened in August 2016. During the "Yuzhang Academy", Beibei drank the laundry detergent and was taken to the hospital for rescue. "I drank three or four sips. At that time, I didn't want to live anymore. I couldn't stand it." Wu Junbao In the court, he questioned that Beibei committed suicide by drinking laundry detergent. He was "self-directed and self-directed." "He just wanted to leave Yuzhang Academy."
During the court hearing, Wu Junbao spoke positively and was interrupted by the judge many times for "off topic". He asked the court to dismiss all the claims of the three plaintiffs and refused the court's mediation. Wu Junbao believes that his involvement in illegal detention has a certain "speciality", which is to educate and correct the child's bad behavior, and has the parent's tacit consent.
"If you have to make some compensation, you have to include everyone, including the responsible parents." Wu Junbao's attorney said. Beibei responded in court that the parents were deceived by the false propaganda of "Yuzhang Academy" and did not know the real situation of "inside".
Victim's lawyer: I hope the court will consider whether Wu Junbao really "repents"
In the July 3 trial, Wu Junbao’s attorney repeatedly emphasized that “open apology” is not the scope of the incidental civil suit. Luo Cheng’s attorney Zhang Cheng responded that because the criminal part of the case did not notify the victim of the prosecution and trial, the victim failed to participate in the previous criminal court trial. “Therefore, the request for an apology for compensation is not only for this incidental civil court trial. , Including the victim’s additional request for failing to participate in the last criminal court hearing."
The last court hearing in this case took place on April 29, 2020. Several victims, including Luo Wei and Beibei, told Peng Mei News that they were unaware of the previous court hearing and did not receive any information, resulting in the failure to file an incidental civil lawsuit in a timely manner.
The last court trial focused on the defendant's criminal facts. In addition to Wu Junbao and Ren Weiqiang, the defendants under trial also included Zhang Shun, the former director of the safety department (general instructor) of Yuzhang Academy, and teachers (instructors) Qu Wenkuan and Chen Bin.
The Prosecutor's Office of Qingshan Lake District in Nanchang sued that from May 2013 to November 2017, Wu Junbao, Ren Weiqiang and others knew that their schools did not have the qualifications for psychology education and psychotherapy, and still violated the provisions of the school license and unauthorized students The implementation of the so-called "Morita Therapy" related to psychotherapy and treatment of mental disorders, the establishment of a "black room" in the school, often throwing freshmen into the "black room" for seven days in confinement, illegally depriving students of their personal freedom.
According to allegations by the public prosecution agency, Wu Junbao and Ren Weiqiang, in the form of "small black houses", have confined more than 240 students, "the confinement time varies from three to ten days."
Before the incident, Wu Junbao and others called the "little black room" a "boring room", and detaining "disobedient" students was the implementation of "Morita therapy."
The Morita Therapy, which originated in Japan in the 1920s, is considered a special treatment for neurosis. Li Jiangbo, chairman of the Morita Therapeutics Application Professional Committee of the Chinese Mental Health Association, said in an interview with Peng Pai News that the implementation of the "Samita Therapy" is not mandatory. "This kind of therapy is carried out with the prior consent of the person. It is not a lock. In the room, (the patient) lies there voluntarily."
After the Nanchang police intervened in the investigation, the truth of "Morita Therapy" by Wu Junbao and others gradually surfaced. After reviewing the case, the Qingshan Lake District Prosecutor in Nanchang believed that the defendants Wu Junbao, Ren Weiqiang, Zhang Shun, Qu Wenkuan, and Chen Bin jointly deprived others of their personal freedom and should be held criminally liable for the crime of illegal detention. imprisonment.
There were 12 victims in this case who were investigated by the police and included in the case file. Among them, three of them filed a criminal incidental civil suit.
On July 3, a defense lawyer of Wu Junbao told Peng Pai News that during the last criminal trial, Wu Junbao "confessed his guilt" to the act of illegal detention, and the defense lawyer defended him with a "criminal".
"But from the perspective of this trial, Wu Junbao and Ren Weiqiang still have no regrets or apologies." The trial of the plaintiff's agent Zhang Cheng said that he hoped that the court would In conviction and sentencing, consider whether Wu Junbao really "repented".
Reporter Zhu Yuanxiang