She beat her stepdaughter with a wooden stick for a pack of biscuits. The cruel stepmother blamed the car accident and had no energy to beat the child.

A woman surnamed Jian beat her stepdaughter with a stick for a packet of biscuits. Schematic diagram (data photo)

Because her stepdaughter, who was under 12 years old, ate the biscuits distributed by the school and did not take them home, a woman surnamed Jian whipped her wildly with a wooden stick and beat the girl until the left side of her face and limbs were covered with bruises and bruises. After the first instance, she was sentenced to six months in prison for assault. After the first instance, she appealed to the second instance, claiming that she was in a car accident and did not have the strength to hit the child, and instead accused the girl of committing suicide. The judge of the second instance criticized her for not being credible and rejected the appeal, upholding the six-month sentence.

The verdict pointed out that the woman surnamed Jian lived with the girl's biological father in Fengshan District after getting married. On November 12, 2024, Jian's daughter was dissatisfied with her stepdaughter for eating the biscuits distributed by the school and not taking them home to honor her. She lost control of her emotions and beat the girl with a wooden stick on the second floor of her residence.

The girl was hit on the spot with multiple bruises and bruises on her left face, left and right upper arms, right forearm and left thigh. When she was at school, her teacher discovered the abnormality and notified the social workers of the Home Defense Center of the Social Affairs Bureau to call the police. During the injury examination, the hospital and pediatric experts evaluated the girl and confirmed that the girl had been physically abused.

The Kaohsiung District Court concluded that Jane was sentenced to six months in prison for the crime of intentional injury to a juvenile offender as an adult. Jane appealed against the decision, arguing that she was injured in a car accident and was unable to beat her. It also accused the girl of suffering from mental illness, self-mutilation and delusions of victimization, and questioned whether the injury was caused by the girl herself.

During the trial at the Kaohsiung High Court, the judge based on the girl's injury report and the multiple track-shaped bruises on her face and arms. It was unimaginable that the girl would hit herself repeatedly with a stick, and more than a month had passed since she reviewed the diagnosis certificate of Jane's car accident. During the investigation, she also admitted that she had the ability to exert force with her bare hands at the time of the crime. It can be seen that the defense words were all about evading responsibility before the lawsuit. Therefore, the stepmother's words were not accepted and the original judgment of the first instance was upheld. The whole case can still be appealed.