Three years ago, in Ashikita Town, Kumamoto Prefecture, a Vietnamese defendant who was a technical intern trainee was accused of abandoning stillborn twin babies at home, and the Supreme Court handed down the ruling on the 24th of this month. decided to pass it on.
The arguments necessary to change the verdict have been opened, and it is possible that the guilty verdict of the second trial may be reviewed.
In November 2020, when Vietnamese technical intern trainee Le Thi Thuy Linh (24) left the bodies of stillborn twin babies in a cardboard box at his home in Ashikita, the defendant abandoned the corpses. is accused of
Although the defendant has consistently maintained his innocence, he was given a suspended conviction in the first and second trials and has appealed.
The Supreme Court has decided to issue a judgment on this trial on the 24th of this month.
The issue is whether the defendant's act constitutes abandonment, and in a hearing held at the Supreme Court last month, the defendant said, ``They continue to have the intention of mourning the baby, making it difficult to find the body or hindering the funeral. I didn't do it," and insisted that it would not be abandoned, but the prosecution requested that the appeal be dismissed, saying, "The act of sealing the body in a double box is equivalent to hiding the body."
In order to change the judgment, the necessary arguments were opened, so the guilt may be reconsidered, and the Supreme Court's ruling will be watched.