A 25-year-old girl in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, was unable to repay a loan and gave her mother sleeping pills mixed with dumpling filling, and used a syringe to inject saline into her mother’s heart to kill her. The girl recently appeared in court and was sentenced to Life in prison for the crime of intentional wounding.
According to the 25-year-old girl, Ning Juan (a pseudonym), who was born in 1995 and had a college Education, had no fixed job and had been living with her mother, according to a comprehensive mainland media report. Without a stable income, she spent a lot of money and gradually incurred a lot of online loans and credit card debts, which she could not afford to pay off. Ning Juan confessed that she had always wanted to commit suicide, but she had a good relationship with her mother, and was afraid that the other party would not be able to bear the blow after her death, so she wanted to kill her mother first and then commit suicide.
Ning Juan said that on December 21, 2019, she first went to the hospital claiming that she had insomnia, and the doctor then prescribed sleeping pills for her. She went Home and dissolved the sleeping pills in water and mixed some of them into the dumpling filling. She marked the dumplings with the sleeping pills and gave her mother the dumplings with the sleeping pills after they were cooked. After her mother went to bed, Ning prepared a 1-meter-long wire and plastic film to kill each other, and left a suicide note for her friend.
The next morning at 3 a.m., Ning decided to do it after seeing her mother asleep. She first covered the other party’s mouth and nose with plastic film, “I began to cover gently, I found my mother awake, with the left hand to choke her neck, the right hand also began to make force”. After a few minutes, Ning Juan was afraid that her mother was still alive, so she used a wire to strangle the other party’s neck, and then injected saline into her heart with the syringe used to vaccinate cats.
After determining her mother’s death, Ning first went online to sell the dogs and cats she kept at home, then arrived in Dalian with the remaining three cats and gave them to a friend, and then attempted suicide in a hotel. On December 24 of the same year, his father found his wife’s remains and reported the case to the police, who arrested Ning Juan at the hotel the next day.
It was found that the deceased died of mechanical asphyxiation after taking sleeping pills and then having her nose and mouth covered and her neck strangled. The police found out that Ning Juan owed a large amount of money for online loans and credit card overdrafts, totaling more than 100,000 RMB.
The Intermediate Court of Anshan City held that Ning Juan’s intentional and unlawful deprivation of the victim’s life constituted the crime of intentional homicide. As she was a first-Time offender and had no prior criminal record, she voluntarily confessed her guilt and was given a lighter punishment as appropriate, so the verdict was handed down.
Ning Juan’s matricide case sparked a lot of discussion on the internet, and more netizens discussed the incident itself in depth, with the most mentioned topic being the problem of young people taking on a lot of debt nowadays. Some netizens said that many online lending platforms are now sparing no effort to drain young people, many young people owe a lot of money and do not dare to talk to their families, resulting in many tragedies; other netizens said that people are easily caught in a deadlock when forced to desperate situations, and thus make decisions and actions quite irrational, before a man who lost 20 million speculating in bitcoin in Dalian also killed his daughter and his wife together A man in Dalian who lost 20 million dollars speculating in bitcoin also killed his daughter and his wife together, while Ning Juan also thought that his mother was left unattended to kill her.
China’s economy has been on a downward spiral in recent years, and in order to boost economic growth, officials have been inducing Chinese people to spend more. A variety of lending platforms have become ATMs for young people who have no money to spend, and the whole society is overspending in advance.
According to the “China Consumer Youth Debt Status Report” released by Nielsen Market Research at the end of 2019, the penetration rate of credit products among young people in China has reached 86.6%. After deducting the portion of this amount that is used as a normal payment tool, 44.5% of the total population is in substantial debt, and nearly half of young people are living in debt by “spending tomorrow’s money”.
According to data released by the Central Bank of the Communist Party of China, in the third quarter of 2018, the total amount of credit cards overdue for six months reached 88.098 billion yuan. In July of the same year, the figure was only 75.667 billion yuan, but eight years ago, the figure was only 7.686 billion yuan.
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