Missing girl's mother appeals
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 3, 2010, Wednesday
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BEIJING prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a woman and a man who confessed to killing the woman's stepdaughter nine years ago, because the girl's body is still missing.
The girl's biological mother Gao Qiuhong said her mind was blank after being informed of the decision made by the First Branch of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate on October 18.
Gao told Beijing Times that she has launched an appeal to higher-level authorities, namely the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate, to review the case as she insists the two should not be freed when her daughter died painfully.
Her daughter Liu Tingting began living with Gao's ex-husband and his second wife Li Mei in Fangshan District in 1997. Gao said Liu constantly complained to her about having quarrels with her stepmother before Liu, at the age of 14, disappeared in May 2001.
After years of searching without result, Gao's final hope faded as Li, 47, said she and another man Chong Jinsheng, 46, killed the girl by strangling her and buried the corpse under trees near their house on the night of May 5, 2001. Li and Chong were detained in 2008.
However, after days of digging, police in Fangshan District couldn't find the body where the pair claimed to have buried the girl after her death. The missing body was deemed a lack of key evidence to determine the murder means, causing the First Branch of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate to dismiss the prosecution.
The girl's biological mother Gao Qiuhong said her mind was blank after being informed of the decision made by the First Branch of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate on October 18.
Gao told Beijing Times that she has launched an appeal to higher-level authorities, namely the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate, to review the case as she insists the two should not be freed when her daughter died painfully.
Her daughter Liu Tingting began living with Gao's ex-husband and his second wife Li Mei in Fangshan District in 1997. Gao said Liu constantly complained to her about having quarrels with her stepmother before Liu, at the age of 14, disappeared in May 2001.
After years of searching without result, Gao's final hope faded as Li, 47, said she and another man Chong Jinsheng, 46, killed the girl by strangling her and buried the corpse under trees near their house on the night of May 5, 2001. Li and Chong were detained in 2008.
However, after days of digging, police in Fangshan District couldn't find the body where the pair claimed to have buried the girl after her death. The missing body was deemed a lack of key evidence to determine the murder means, causing the First Branch of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate to dismiss the prosecution.
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