Angry father of four sentenced to death for murdering family-planning officials
Man stabs officials for refusing to give his child registration papers after violating one-child policy
A man was sentenced to death today for killing two family planning officials after the bureau refused to grant identity papers for his fourth child.
He Shenguo, 33, was found guilty of murder by a district court in Guangxi province of carrying out the deadly attack in Dongxing city last year and wounding four others, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
The court ruled that He should be denied political rights for life and must pay 280,000 yuan (HK$350,000) in damages.
He, who is from Daqiao villager under Maxing city, marched into the family planning bureau carrying a 50cm-long knife on July 23. Prosecutors said he stabbed the two officials dead and wounded three staff and a lawyer.
The defendant was enraged after the bureau rejected his application for household registration papers (hukou) for his fourth-child. The local officials explained they rejected the application because He, who had three daughters and a son, did not pay penalties for one-child policy violations.
China’s one-child policy, in force since 1979, allows rural parents to have more than one child if the firstborn is a girl. The one-child policy was also relaxed, allowing extra children for urban parents who were an only child.