After more than 10 days of deliberation, on the morning of May 10, the High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City issued a verdict against the defendant Nguyen Kim Trung Thai (38 years old living in Ho Chi Minh City). The victim in the case is V.A., the defendant’s biological child.
Accordingly, the court rejected the appeal to affirm the 8-year prison sentence for defendant Nguyen Kim Trung Thai (38 years old, residing in Ho Chi Minh City) for the crime. Torturing others and concealing crimes.
According to today’s reporter, Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang (Thai’s lover) was not brought to court. As for Nguyen Kim Trung Thai, he was brought to court early. Court security was tightened.
During the trial, Nguyen Kim Trung Thai admitted the crime and said he was a weak father for not being able to protect his daughter. However, this person denied being an accomplice to murder.
The jury determined that Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang’s appeal was valid. Before the appeal court, the 28-year-old girl voluntarily withdrew her appeal, so the court decided to suspend the trial.
Regarding the appeal of the representative of the victim’s family that the Family and Juvenile Court does not have jurisdiction to conduct a first instance trial, the Trial Panel believes that there is no basis for approval.</p >
Regarding the appeal to change defendant Thai’s charge to Murder, the jury determined that the injuries on December 22, 2021 were enough to cause the victim’s death. On this day, defendant Thai was not at home when he discovered the incident. Thai called to ask his lover to stop beating the victim. Thai’s action above shows that there was obstruction and no intention to take away her daughter’s life.
From there, the jury determined that there was no basis. determined that defendant Thai was an accomplice of Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang in the crime of Murder.
From the above analysis, the jury decided to reject the entire appeal of the lawyer to protect the victim’s rights.
Previously in court, defendant Thai admitted that he “agreed” to let his girlfriend, Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang, beat and torture his daughter. Besides, he claimed that he beat his child and locked him in a dog cage. But when asked about his knowledge, the defendant denied and said he had never thought about killing his daughter and just left him without care.
Lawyers protect the rights of baby V.A. presented a series of points of view to prove that Thai committed the same crime or directly witnessed his lover torturing his daughter. Thai’s actions had enough elements to constitute the crime of Murder. Since then, the lawyers have asked the jury to accept the appeal to change the crime against Nguyen Kim Trung Thai to Murder.
The representative of the High People’s Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City said that on December 22, 2021, Page hit beating and torturing little V.A. when Thai is not at home. The expert’s conclusion clearly showed that just the injuries that day were enough to cause the child’s death, so there was no basis to determine that Thai Dong was guilty of murder. The representative of the High People’s Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City proposed not to accept the appeal of the lawyer to protect the rights of the victim.
According to the case file of little N.T.V.A. is the daughter of Thai and Ms. N.T.H.. In August 2020, the couple divorced and Thai was given the right to care and raise their daughter by the court.
In September 2020, Thai lived as husband and wife with Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang. Baby V.A. living with 2 people.
October 2021 Trang has no job so she tutors baby A. in online learning at home. Trang repeatedly used her hands and feet to whip wooden and metal rods to beat and torture the little girl. There were times when Trang wouldn’t let the baby wear clothes; At the same time, the catch kneels and raises both arms high; forced the child to crawl into the dog cage and kneel while studying…
Climax on December 22, 2021 Page tortured the girl in many ways for many hours, causing her to lose consciousness. Seeing this, Trang called Thai to inform her.
When she returned home, Thai saw her daughter in a coma and immediately gave first aid and took her to the hospital for emergency treatment, but she did not survive.
Knowing Trang Thai’s crime, she deleted the apartment’s camera data to hide her lover’s crime, hindering the investigation process.
First instance trial, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang sentenced to death for Murder and Torture; sentenced Nguyen Kim Trung Thai to 3 years in prison for the crime of torturing others and 5 years in prison for concealing a crime. The total penalty is 8 years in prison.
After the above verdict, Nguyen Vo Quynh Trang protested. The defendant asked for his life, but before the appeal court, Trang suddenly withdrew his appeal and accepted the death sentence.
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