Our reporter learned yesterday that the Daxing Court found 19-year-old Ms Xiao Jing (a pseudonym) guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced her to 3 years in prison. Unmarried Ms Xiao Jing unexpectedly became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl in the toilet. Worried about the negative impact of being an unwed mother, she abandoned the baby and caused its death.
On December 31st last year, Aunt Liu, a sanitation worker at an apartment building's north gate in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone, discovered a dead baby girl in the grass. After receiving the report, police reviewed surveillance footage near the crime scene and identified Ms Xiao Jing, who was working nearby, as the prime suspect. Faced with police questioning, Ms Xiao admitted to the act. She confessed that she had multiple relations with her boyfriend during their relationship. After realizing she was pregnant, she didn't dare go to the hospital. Around 10 PM on December 30th, she experienced severe abdominal pain and thought it was just a stomach issue, so she went to the toilet and subsequently gave birth to a baby girl. She claimed that she was afraid others would find out about her pregnancy out of wedlock, so she placed the baby in a garbage bin and threw it into the grass outside her dormitory. DNA tests confirmed that the baby girl was indeed Ms Xiao Jing's child with her boyfriend.