A 9-year-old boy was "hanged upside down and soaked in water" without turning off the electrical appliance. The biological mother teamed up with her boyfriend to argue that "you should discipline your children only if you love them"

A 9-year-old boy forgot to turn off an electrical appliance, and his mother and her live-in boyfriend teamed up to beat him with a belt, tie him up with a cloth bag and tape, and even "dangled him upside down and immersed him in water." The two men were sentenced to eight months in prison in the first trial. The two appealed for a suspended sentence, but the second-instance judge believed that their mentality had not really changed, and rejected the appeal and upheld the original sentence.

The verdict pointed out that the woman surnamed Lai and her boyfriend surnamed Ye jointly took care of Lai's 9-year-old son from her ex-husband. At around 5 o'clock in the evening on September 24 last year, when the two returned home, they found that the boy had not turned off the electrical appliances at home when he went out to play with friends. In order to teach the child a lesson about wasting electricity, they first beat the boy with a belt and forced him to kneel down.

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Ye and Lai then took out a sack, covered the boy's head, face and feet, tied his hands and feet with tape, tied the child on his shoulders, rode to Qieyu Dapai, grabbed the boy's legs together, immersed the child in the water with his head down and his feet up, and pulled him up twice. Then they rode a motorcycle and ordered the child to run and follow the car home. After arriving home, Ye and Lai took fishing rods and took turns whipping the child's soles.

After receiving the report, the social worker rushed the boy to the hospital, placed him in a safe place, and called the police. The Qiaotou District Court sentenced the two men to eight months in prison each for the crime of intentional injury to a child and the crime of cruelty to a person under 18 years of age. Ye and Lai appealed.

During the trial at the Kaohsiung High Court, the judge found that Lai Nu still argued during the trial that she was "out of concern for correction" and "out of love for children." This shows that she did not establish a correct mentality and cognition after completing her parenting education. In addition, the dedicated social worker's assessment showed that the boy still has a defensive reaction against the defendant, and is suffering from physical and mental trauma and needs to continue to return for medical treatment. The judge considered that the two people, as caregivers, had caused great physical and mental trauma to the children. The circumstances were so serious that it was impossible to grant a suspended sentence and rejected the appeal. The whole case can still be appealed.