A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’s students, sickening 25.
The
kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens
of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler
dead.
The attack
took place in March 2019 and left one boy severely ill for months before he
died in January this year, according to news reports.
The Jiaozuo
City Intermediate People’s Court on Monday said Wang knew sodium nitrite was
harmful but went ahead “with no regard for the consequences”, leaving many
innocent children in hospital.
News reports
last year said the children began vomiting and fainting after eating their
breakfast.
Kindergarten
students in China are aged between three and six.
The death
sentence was handed to Wang this week for the offense of using dangerous
substances.
Sodium
nitrite is used for curing meats but can be toxic when ingested in high
amounts.
Wang
concealed her reasons for the poisoning after carrying out the crime and her
“motives were despicable”, the court said.
Her “criminal
methods and circumstances were exceedingly bad, with especially severe
circumstances, and she should be severely punished in accordance with the law,”
the sentencing statement said.
The court
added that Wang and the manager of the kindergarten must compensate the
children’s families.
It was not
the first time Wang used sodium nitrite to poison someone, authorities said. In
2017 she put it in her husband’s mug, causing him minor injuries.
In March last
year, 36 primary school students in southwest China’s Sichuan province were
hospitalized after eating “moldy food”.
(AFP)
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