Just because her mother was obsessed with playing Mahjong, a three-month-old baby was forgotten in a heated pot.
When the husband returned home from work, their son had already been cooked alive, with even the flesh separating from the bones.
The furious husband found his wife and, picking up a kitchen knife, severed her arm. The wife thought her husband had changed his mind.
This case became known as the shocking "Mother Boiled Baby Case."
Location of the incident: Sichuan Province Zigong City.
On a day in July 2015, a woman named Ma Chunlan was preparing to boil water to bathe her three-month-old son.
At that moment, her phone rang; it was a call from her Mahjong friends, saying they were one player short and urging her to come quickly for "help."
Hearing about the Mahjong game, Ma Chunlan immediately agreed.
However, after hanging up, she remembered that her son still needed a bath. What should she do?
After thinking it over, Ma Chunlan came up with a bold idea.
She set up a large pot on the stove, filled it with water, and lit the fire before placing her son inside to soak.
Meanwhile, her friends called again, urging Ma Chunlan to hurry. In a panic, she disregarded her son in the pot and rushed off to the Game Room.
Several hours later, Ma Chunlan's husband, Yang Xiaolong, returned home from work.
As soon as he entered, he smelled a strange meat odor. He thought his wife had prepared a delicious dinner for him, but oddly enough, both his wife and son were not at home. It was getting late; where could they have gone?
When he attempted to serve the meat, what he saw in the pot shocked Yang Xiaolong to the point of collapsing on the floor.
This was no dinner.
The pot contained his own son, who had been boiled to the point where his skin had separated from the flesh.
Thinking about where his wife could be, he concluded that she must have gone out to play cards, causing this disaster.
Filled with rage, he grabbed a kitchen knife and went to the game room to find his wife.
Seeing her engrossed in the game only fueled Yang Xiaolong's anger further. He grabbed her by the hair and began to slash at her arms. After several strikes, Ma Chunlan's arm was severed by her husband.
Witnesses realized the situation was dire and quickly called the police.
When the officers arrived, they initially thought Yang Xiaolong was a violent criminal attacking people indiscriminately.
However, upon learning the full story and seeing the dismembered child in a basin, they were horrified and vomited.
Ma Chunlan was rushed to the hospital, and due to her severe injuries, it took over ten hours of emergency treatment before she was out of life-threatening danger.
Although Ma Chunlan's injuries were very severe, Yang Xiaolong showed no concern at all, as he had grown to hate this woman deeply.
After Ma Chunlan woke up from a few days of coma, she saw that her arm had been severed. She told the police that her husband was so intolerant of her playing mahjong that he treated her so cruelly, indicating that she was completely unaware of her own mistakes.
Once the police noticed that Ma Chunlan's condition was improving, they asked her what she had been doing before going out to play mahjong.
Upon hearing this, Ma Chunlan was stunned for a moment. When the police mentioned that her son had been cooked by her own actions, she broke down in heart-wrenching tears and soon fainted again from overwhelming sorrow.
After she regained consciousness, taking advantage of others not paying attention, she went to the rooftop of the hospital and chose to commit suicide by jumping off.
Her husband, Yang Xiaolong, was sentenced to five years in prison for intentional homicide.
What is surprising is that such a tragic incident could arise simply from an obsession with playing mahjong.
PS: It seems absurd to forget that your child is still in the pot just to play mahjong, right?
But it is not uncommon.
Such cases are not rare; in the past, when online information was not as developed, I heard about some outrageous yet real incidents.
For example, a woman accidentally suffocated her child while sleeping in an improper position; a new mother scalded her child while preparing formula without checking the water temperature; an elderly woman went out to play cards with friends and tied her child under a chair because he was running around, only to find hours later that the child had suffocated from struggling…
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