Vietnamese babysitter gets 18 years for stamping baby to death
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday sentenced a former nursemaid at an unlicensed nursery to 18 years in jail for stamping a 18-month-old baby to death last year.
Ho Ngoc Nho, 19, was arrested on November 16, 2013 after she brutalized the baby, D.N.L, at a rented room she used as an unregistered nursery in Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District.
According to the indictment, after receiving L. from his mother on the morning that day, Nho spoon fed the baby his breakfast.
As L. had cried and refused to being fed, Nho got angry and picked up the baby by his legs, turning him upside down, in an attempt to stop him from crying.
But while Nho was maltreating the baby this way, she accidentally dropped him on the ground, causing the baby scream loudly.
The angry nursemaid stamped her foot on the baby’s chest and abdomen, and then went to the restroom, leaving the baby on the floor.
A while later, Nho returned and found L. fainted. She and some neighbor then rushed the baby to hospital but he died on the way.
The autopsy on L. revealed that the baby suffered many serious injuries, including bruised lungs, and heart and liver ruptures.
At the trial, Nho’s lawyer requested that the jury consider a slighter sentence for Nho as she has mental problems as a hereditary disease from her father.
However, the court rejected the lawyer’s request, affirming that she had enough civil capacity at the time when she brutalized the baby, so she deserved strict punishment.
As she was less than 18 years old when committing the crime, the court decided to sentence her to 18 years behind bars.
The jury also odered Nho and her family to pay VND100 million (US$4,730) as compensation to the dead baby’s family.
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