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Poor couple sent to prison for killing newborn
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-19 08:57

A man and his girlfriend were recently sentenced to six and two years imprisonment respectively for killing their newborn baby in 2006.

The young woman surnamed Fu and her boyfriend, surnamed Zhang, have struggled to survive since 2006 when they graduated from high school and started living together.

To add to their unemployment woes, Fu accidentally fell pregnant.

With no money to nurse the baby or even pay for an abortion, they plotted to kill the baby once it was born.

Early one morning in December, 2006, after Fu had just given birth to a baby girl in their rented house, Zhang suffocated the newborn and buried her body nearby.

Villagers eventually discovered the body and informed police.

Both were charged with intentional homicide, for which Zhang was primarily liable.

(Beijing Times)