13-Year-Old Chinese Girl Murders Classmate for Being Prettier
by Peter Barefoot on Thursday, May 9, 2013
by Peter Barefoot on Thursday, May 9, 2013
From NetEase:
13-Year-Old Girl Murders and Dismembers Classmate for Being Prettier Than Her
From Xinhua.net Guangxi Channel May 6 news, a girl not yet 13 years old and still in 6th grade invited her classmate to her home and murdered her, hacking off her head and arms and bagging them out of resentment of her being prettier than herself. Recently, Guangxi Hechi City Intermediate People’s Court pronounced its final judgment: The defendant’s parents is to compensate the plaintiff 108,000 yuan for all sorts of expenses.
As it’s written in the court’s judgement, the 13-year-old girl surnamed Zhou studied at Nandan County Lihu Yao Ethnicity Village Renguang Elementary School, where she and the less-than-13-year-old girl surnamed Qin were classmates in 6th grade. They were good friends, and their families were neighbors on the same street, their houses less than 150 meters away from each other. Qin became envious of Zhou and started to hate her because her classmates liked to play with Zhou and used to say that she was fat and was not as pretty as Zhou.
The judgement shows that on the evening of 2012 April 10, Qin invited Zhou over to play. After Zhou arrived at Qin’s home and while the two were watching TV, Qin smashed a wooden stool over Zhou’s head and knocked her unconscious as Zhou was playing with her cell phone with her head down. For fear of Zhou telling teachers and parents upon regaining consciousness, she assaulted Zhou with a kitchen knife, a beer bottle, a paper knife, a pair of scissors and other murder instruments she found at home, causing Zhou to die at the scene. Then Qin even chopped off Zhou’s head and arms, put them into plastic bags, and cleaned the blood from the scene of the crime.
Guangxi Police determined that the defendant Qin committed intentional homicide [murder], but because she has not reached the age of 14 when she was committed the crime, she would not be held criminally liable in accordance with the law, and that Qin would be rehabilitated for 3 years. Zhou’s parents filed a lawsuit in court, where the Guangxi Nandan County People’s Court ruled that in addition to the 10,000yuan that Qin’s parents had already compensated the plaintiff, they must compensate the plaintiff another 98,000 yuan. Zhou’s parents were unsatisfied, and appealed.
Recently, the Guangxi Hechi City Intermediate People’s Court’s final judgment affirmed the original judgment.
