Grandpa's mobile phone has always kept a cute picture of Wang Yu. Courtesy of family members

Name: Wang Yu

Age: 2 years old

Time of death: in the morning of October 11, 2014

Cause of death: strangled by mother due to noise

Living address: Daxing District Harmonious Property Base

The little boy Wang Yu died in the morning, one week before his third birthday.

An hour before his death, he was still sitting on the ground at home, playing with toys and eating snacks. But then came the "untimely" cry, which angered the mother, Jia Liyuan, who was out of control.

The mother pinched Wang Yu's neck twice and put a plastic bag and quilt on the child's head, hoping that he would be quiet.

Those who have met Wang Yu will always remember his smile. But disease, poverty, and parents' quarrels day after day make more people only hear children's heart rending tears.

"I didn't mean to". This sentence was repeated dozens of times in the court, but it has been unable to save the child's life and the broken family.

"Maybe it was a mistake for this child to come to this world," said Grandma Wang Yu.

Born unlucky

He is not a born happy child.

She is weak, underdeveloped, and has shorter legs than normal children. She can barely walk when she is more than two years old. She is trembling when she walks, said Ms. Guo, Wang Yu's grandmother.

When the child was 7 months old, he went to the hospital for examination. The doctor diagnosed that Wang Yu had "acquired deformation in the waist, and functional disorder in the left hand".

But compared with the physical pain, the impact and torture on the children is greater, perhaps because of the family discord. Ms. Guo said, "When his mother was pregnant, she quarreled and fought with her husband's family. The family was unhappy and the economic conditions were not good, so the couple insisted on giving birth to Wang Yu.".

Wang Yu's birth did not alleviate the family's contradictions. The couple of Jialiyuan even signed an agreement before giving birth. Because the eldest daughter was brought up by her parents, Wang Yu was raised by her grandparents after she was born.

Wang Yu had very few toys. "A 15 yuan trolley and a 10 yuan doll", Grandma said, were all given by relatives.

Will remember his smile

Fortunately, Wang Yu was born optimistic.

Children love to laugh. This is the most memory he left for everyone. Grandparents gave red envelopes to children during the Spring Festival. When it was Wang Yu's turn, his chubby little hands clasped each other, bowing and thanking, giggling, and then took the red envelopes like his sister's. "It looks very painful.".

The owner of the supermarket in the community also remembered the child, wearing a small hat, fair skin, and a pair of small hands on his father's shoulder. Dad put Wang Yu beside the cigarette shelf at the door, went shopping by himself, and told him not to move. "Well behaved, they put their hands on the small refrigerator under the shelf. His father wouldn't move if he didn't let me. I teased him, and he was very happy." The landlady recalled that before leaving, Wang Yu also waved his hands to her.

The child has not yet learned to speak. "Dad, Mom and Sister" are the only three words he knows, and they are repeated every day.

Because her parents seldom take her out for activities, her 4-year-old sister is Wang Yu's only playmate. "Every time the sister and brother meet, the sister will embrace Wang Yu happily and share all the toys and snacks with him as usual." Grandma said that because her sister lives with their old couple, she cannot accompany Wang Yu every day.

These days, my sister often asks my grandma, "Where is my mother, where is my father, and where is Wang Yu

But I always hear him crying

In the simple building where Wang Yu lived, there was little communication between the neighbors, and because Jia Liyuan was too busy with housework, Wang Yu seldom got the chance to go out. Although I don't see him often, the neighbors have a good impression of Wang Yu.

"He was fat and white, his face was smiling, he walked a little shakily, and his pants were hung with diapers." A neighbor remembered that once Wang Yu was walking alone in the corridor, and he entered his house by mistake. "I squatted down and hugged him, and he called me Mom." The neighbor found that Wang Yu's urine was not full, so he kindly changed it for a new one. Wang Yu was beaten when he came home because he accepted the diaper. The cry shook the whole corridor.

Many people remember Wang Yu's cry. "Several times when he patrolled his house, he heard the child crying at home from afar, and no one answered his knock." Fu, the teacher in charge of the security work of the community, recalled that because he was a fellow villager, Wang Yu's parents and teacher Fu got to know each other better. Teacher Fu sat at the gate of the community every day, and Wang Yu's parents would greet him when they came out and went in, Occasionally, the teacher Fu would tell Wang Yu's mother about the crying of the child, but nothing seemed to change.

No one can describe Wang Yu in detail, including the teacher Fu and many residents of the community. The mothers who took their children for a walk in the community every morning and afternoon said, "I haven't seen this baby in the community."

The angry child

Late at night on October 10, 2014, because her husband, Wang Yuanzhi, came home late, they fought again. In anger, Jia Liyuan drove Wang Yuanzhi out of the house with a hammer, and then fell asleep in the early morning.

"I was confused. I heard a sound in the room. At first, my son was eating and playing with bricks on the ground with bare feet.

The pain made Wang Yu cry out instinctively. Later, the doctor found that the child's skull was fractured due to the back of his head landing on the ground.

But Jialiyuan was still angry, and the pain, grievance, poverty and despair suffered by living with her lover in these years came to mind. Every day, she calculated the daily necessities, rent, water and electricity. No one asked her to straighten her waist for a while, which was not over. She also had to deal with the property manager who asked for money and the workmates who asked for loans from time to time.

be quiet

Thinking of this, the irritability caused by boredom almost made Jarry lose his reason. She squatted down and put a hand around Wang Yu's neck.

Wang Yu waved a small hand, trying to stop the mother who was out of control.

"When he grabbed my hand, I loosened his neck, but when he was still crying, I tried to make him quiet, and then pinched him. He grabbed my hand again, and then stopped crying, and his face turned purple." In the public security organ, Wang Yu's mother kept repeating that all she had done was to make the child quiet.

Wang Yu lay on the ground and stopped crying. He opened his mouth wide and breathed heavily, but this still did not meet the standard of quietness in his mother's eyes.

The plastic bag containing snacks turned out to be a deadly weapon.

About an hour later, when my mother woke up from her cage returning sleep, she found Wang Yu lying motionless on the ground covered by plastic bags and quilts.

He's dead.

On June 1, 2015, Wang Yu's mother was sentenced by the court to 11 years' imprisonment for intentional homicide. Dad was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for shielding his mother.

In the court, Wang Yu's mother was crying all the time. She said she didn't mean to. This sentence was repeated dozens of times.

Message

I hope my child can find a good parent in the next life—— Grandma Ms. Guo

This page is written by Li Yutong, a reporter of Beijing News