THE family of a woman, who died when her husband turned off her life support, appealed to the Shenzhen People s Procuratorate on Tuesday claiming the husband s sentence was too lenient.
The city s procuratorate will decide whether to hand the appeal to the Guangdong procuratorate in five days.
Wen Yuzhang, the husband of Hu Jing, was handed a three-year suspended sentence last Thursday for ending Hu s life by unplugging her life support while she was in a coma in February last year.
The court ruling was too lenient and I couldn t bear the attitude of Wen s family after the court ruling, Xiao Guilian, Wen s mother, was quoted as saying by media reports.
Hu could have survived with medical treatment after she collapsed at home Feb. 9, 2009. Shenzhen No. 2 People s Hospital should be held responsible for her daughter s death because doctors concluded there was no hope of survival even before they had taken necessary brain scans, Xiao claimed.
Expert testimony dated March 26 this year claimed the hospital was involved in Hu s death by delaying treatment and making an unclear diagnosis.
Xiao claimed Wen had unplugged his wife s life support because he was having extramarital affairs.
Xiao was enraged when Wen s family told their children that she had taken court action because she wanted compensation. I felt the court ruling was unfair, but I have been exhausted over the two years the case has taken and wanted to drop the appeal. But Wen s attitude hurt me. The family said we were desperate for money because we were poor... so we decided to fight the case to the end, Xiao said.
(Han Ximin)
