Prosecutors rule out arrest in alleged abuse case
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Prosecutors in Nanjing have denied a police request to formally arrest a woman on charges of physically abusing her 9-year-old adopted son.
The decision by the Pukou District People’s Procuratorate followed an arrest hearing last week when 12 of 19 people appointed to hear the case ruled against the arrest of Li Zhengqin, 50, according to a reported in the Legal Evening News.
The newspaper said that in a letter of apology read out at the hearing in the capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, she said: “I went mad and beat him after he made a small mistake. I feel so regretful and guilty. I apologize to the boy, his biological parents and the public as well.”
The decision doesn’t mean Li is immune from criminal punishment, an official from the Putuo District People’s Procuratorate told Shanghai Daily.
She can still be charged, he said. Arrest is just one of a series of measures that include bail, detention and home surveillance, he added.
Teachers alerted police about the suspected abuse on April 2 after the boy showed up in school with bruising all over his body.
Police said that an initial investigation found Li had beat the boy because he failed to finish his homework.
She had kicked him and used a skipping rope to whip him, they said.
Li was detained on April 5, and the boy sent back to his biological parents in east China’s Anhui Province.
The parents had asked Li, a relative, to adopt the boy because they couldn’t afford to raise him, according to the Yangtze Evening News.
The newspaper said they hoped the boy could be returned to Li to ensure a better study environment and a promising future. The boy also wanted to go back to his adopted parents, it reported.
It quoted him as saying: “My mom loves me. She won’t treat me bad. I am eager to go back to Nanjing.”
He said he didn’t blame Li as he had lied about his homework.
Li’s husband, a lawyer, said that his wife had been treating the boy well, although he said that she was strict with him, according to a report in the Modern Express newspaper.
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