Charity to raise jail mom’s son
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A 3-YEAR-OLD boy is to be raised by a charity in Beijing while his mother serves a prison sentence for providing premises for prostitution, a court said yesterday.
The boy will be returned to his mother after the 22-month jail term ends, the Pudong New Area People’s Court said yesterday.
This is said to be the first case of the city arranging for a charity to take care of the child of a convict on a temporary basis.
The mother, surnamed Miao, a divorcee from Anhui Province, was held by police on September 2 last year in a unlicensed barber shop she owned on Nanmatou Road.
Miao was found to be providing a venue for two prostitutes and four customers discovered there.
Prosecutors said Miao should receive a heavier penalty as she is a repeat offender who was sentenced to 10 months in jail in 2009 for procuring women as prostitutes and sheltering them.
Miao told the court that her 3-year-old toddler would be left alone if she were jailed.
She said she had no contact details for her ex-husband, and when court officials tried to connect her relatives, they were told they are incapable of bringing up the boy.
Sunvillage, a national educational organization for children whose parents are in jail, told the court that it could accept the child. Its founder was in Shanghai yesterday to collect the child.
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