News ~ "He was still my father after all, and I had to bury him."

Dear God,

We pray for this boy of 17 (in 2010), Yu Wei that he would grow up without the negative effects of his experiences with the circumstances surrounding the death of his mother & father. May he adjust well in soceity and may he meet people who will help him in his life's journey.

Amen.

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His Suicide Is An Escape
The Electric New Paper, June 24, 2010
By Elysa Chen
http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,245996,00.html

Chinese youth whose father murders mother and kills himself in prison says father didn't have courage to face punishment. On June 26 last year, 17-year-old Yu Wei rushed home to find the police at his door. His mother had been stabbed to death. Worse, his father was the killer. Three months later, on Sept 20, his father committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial for murder. The tragedy has left Yu Wei, who came from China with his mother to study here, an orphan. He has no relatives here. A family friend acts as his guardian and visits him once a week. The findings of a joint coroner's inquiry into his parents' deaths yesterday brought him little comfort. Yu Wei's father, Yu Qiangguo, 45, had fatally stabbed his mother, Madam Wei Hong, 41, and hanged himself in his jail cell. He was prepared to forgive his father once the man was sentenced in the High Court, but that chance never came. Still, Yu Wei decided to forgive his father when he learned of his death. He said: "He was still my father after all, and I had to bury him."

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