China News Service, Hong Kong, April 20 (Reporter Wang Jiacheng) A 5-year-old girl in Hong Kong was tortured to death. The sentence was pronounced in the Hong Kong High Court on the 20th.

The girl’s biological father and stepmother were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and the girl’s stepmother was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for two crimes of cruel treatment of children.

　　In this case, in addition to the girl Z, her brother X was also abused.

The defendants in the case were a 30-year-old male defendant who was the biological father of the child abused (hereinafter referred to as the "father"); a 30-year-old female defendant was the second wife of the male defendant and the stepmother of the child abused (hereinafter referred to as the "stepmother"); And the 56-year-old female defendant, the mother of another female defendant (hereinafter referred to as "follow grandmother").

　　When sentencing, the judge pointed out that the father and stepmother were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment according to the law.

Regarding the child abuse crimes of the two against boy X and girl Z, the family involved had 3 children, but the girl Y born to the stepmother and ex-husband was not abused, and the two only targeted X and Z.

The younger siblings were seriously injured within 5 months, but the father and stepmother made false statements to deliberately conceal the injuries of X and Z, and for selfish reasons, in order to avoid legal consequences, they never took the younger siblings to see a doctor Get treatment.

　　According to the facts of the case, the little siblings X and Z were born to their parents and their first wife. They lived with their grandmother after they were born. Their relative father divorced their first wife, and they met their stepmother in 2016.

The stepmother brought her daughter Y, born to her ex-husband, into the public housing where her little brother and sister lived.

Later, the younger siblings' father and stepmother married, and in August 2017, they moved with Y to the step-grandmother’s house to form a new family.

　　The case revealed that the younger siblings were accused of being naughty and subjected to various forms of abuse after living with their fathers and stepmothers. Although the step-grandmother who lived with them knew that the younger siblings had been abused, she did not stop them.

　　Girl Z went into a coma on January 6, 2018. Her father called the police, but there were no signs of life when the girl was sent to hospital.

The cause of death report pointed out that the girl’s Z organ was infected and died of sepsis. There were more than 130 wounds all over the body.

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