Schematic diagram of a 13-year sentence for mothering an immature girl for committing suicide.

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[Reporter Wen Yude/Taipei Report] A woman surnamed Chen took her daughter to commit suicide by throwing herself into the sea last year. She was rescued, but her two-year-old daughter died unfortunately. According to the legal community, the crime committed by parents who commit suicide by bringing their young children to commit suicide is not a crime of processing suicide, but a heavier crime. intentional homicide of a child.

Lawyer Lu Junjie, who was a prosecutor and a judge, said that the constituent element of the crime of homicide in Article 27 of the Criminal Law is that the defendant must intentionally cause death out of the motive of homicide. For the death penalty.

If the victim is a minor, the court will then increase the sentence by half of the sentence in accordance with the Child and Adolescent Welfare and Rights Protection Act.

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As for the constituent elements of Article 275 of the Criminal Law for the crime of processing suicide, Lu Junjie said that the defendant must be entrusted by others, and he will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than one year but not more than seven years; if he instigates or helps others to commit suicide, the defendant will Sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years.

Lu Junjie believes that the two-year-old girl in this case was too young to have suicidal thoughts, so the court found Chen Chen guilty of homicide and aggravated her punishment according to the juvenile law. Circumstances, according to the intentional homicide of children sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Two-year-old girls are unlikely to have suicidal thoughts

Lu Junjie also said that in recent years, based on the protection of the rights and interests of children and juveniles in my country, if the perpetrator intentionally commits a crime against the juvenile, the court will mostly choose to give a heavy sentence as a warning to others, considering that the juvenile is a relatively weak victim; Facing the pain of bereavement, he is bound to regret living in prison.

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