Mom jailed for murdering son

SHANGHAI: A woman from Anhui province who kicked her 4-year-old son to death for wetting his bed was sentenced to 11 years in jail yesterday at the Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court.

Her husband Qi Jianhua, the boy's father, was jailed for seven months for helping dispose of the child's body.

The court heard that on the morning of May 29, Shan Rongxia, 25, discovered her son Qi Letian had wet his bed the previous night and forced him to kneel on the floor as punishment.