Delinquent school for boy killers
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Three schoolboys who robbed and killed a rural primary school teacher in central China’s Hunan Province have been sent to a school for delinquent youngsters, local officials said yesterday.
The boys, aged 11, 12 and 13, escaped more severe punishment because Criminal Law states that minors under the age of 14 are immune from criminal penalty whatever crimes they have committed.
The boys will stay at the school for at least two years and may have to stay until they reach the age of 17.
The case sparked widespread controversy over a law thought to be too tolerant of serious offenses committed by juvenile offenders. The boys were reported as acting cool and calm during and after Sunday’s killing at the Xinlian Primary School in Shaodong County.
According to a report in The Beijing News, the boys left an Internet cafe around noon and climbed over a wall into the school campus.
Police said they saw the victim surnamed Li, 52, alone in her dorm, and planned to rob her.
The 12-year-old hit her on the head with a stick, police said.
She tried to escape but the boys chased her and beat her again. They covered her nose and mouth with a towel and demanded she tell him where her personal possessions were.
Li is thought to have suffocated to death and the boys hid her body under a bed.
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