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杀死华裔妻子的白人丈夫被判七年 2010-10-19 21:38:13

好久没有更新博客了,太懒。今天是儿子三岁的生日,看着他满脸的可爱和稚嫩,不禁想起了另一个可爱的小男孩,算起来,他应该快两岁半了。

小男孩的妈妈叫郑明华。初识她,是在我们华人教会周日敬拜的托儿所。我儿子那时不到两岁,她的儿子差不多十五个月大。小男孩很可爱,是个混血儿。明华对儿子及其耐心,看得出是个非常有爱心的妈妈。可是小家伙比别的孩子具有攻击性,比他大一岁的男孩子去拿他的玩具,他就很使劲地拽人家的头发。最后一次见她们母子俩,是在教会组织的一次姐妹会上。小家伙很兴奋地跑进跑出,明华好脾气地在后面追他,给他折纸,试着让他安静。当时我心里就想,这个妈妈真是好有耐心啊。

今年年初,我听到噩耗,据报道,200912月,明华与丈夫商议离婚时,两人时有口角,他(明华丈夫古恩)一时气愤,失手勒毙妻子。古恩将尸体折起放在皮箱内,放到阳台上。早上他将儿子送往托儿所,然后去警局自首。小男孩那时候19个月大。

明华的父母来美奔丧,又撒泪而去。小男孩被儿童和家庭服务中心临时判给古恩的妈妈监管。一对白发人,同时失去了女儿和小孙儿。

上周在去公司的路上,突然听到收音机里的新闻。勒死妻子的男人因故意杀人被判了七年刑。七年!当时我的心仿佛停止了跳动,不敢相信自己的耳朵,只有七年吗?!到了公司,赶紧上网查新闻 --

35岁的古恩五岁开始被祖父多次性虐待,从小被父亲多次殴打。因此被告请的心理学家认为古恩有精神病。可能由于童年的创伤,还患有分离性障碍。被告方的另一位专家说,古恩也有亚斯伯格综合症(Asperger syndrome),自闭症的一种。

因此古恩的律师向陪审团提出,基于精神错乱,古恩无罪。因为古恩不明白事情的本质和后果,他的脑子没有理性的控制。

费郡的检察官则向陪审团提出,古恩应被定为一级谋杀。检察官的心理专家说古恩没有疯,他说,精神病不可以是一个杀人执照。谋杀犯罪时的不理性和精神病是两码事。

古恩告诉警方,他和妻子当时在为离婚协议争吵。妻子危胁说要带儿子去中国,让他永远也见不着。古恩说,他最后记得的是,他一步步走向妻子。当他醒来时,他在妻子身体上,他的手环着妻子的脖子,她死了。(Kuhne said that the last thing he remembered was stepping toward his wife. When he awoke, he was on top of her, his hands around her neck, and she was dead.)

陪审团经过六个小时的考虑,分成两组。大部分人认为是二级谋杀,其余的人则认为古恩因精神错乱而无罪。最终陪审团同意判古恩故意杀人罪七年刑期。(故意杀人最高刑期十年) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101306374.html

明华的儿子现在仍与凶手的母亲住在一起,等待儿童和家庭服务中心的最后判决。可怜的孩子啊!我心痛。

 

7 years for strangling wife, putting body in suitcase



By Tom Jackman

Thursday, October 14, 2010

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/13/AR2010101307082.html

A Herndon man who strangled his wife, put her body in a suitcase, then surrendered to police and immediately confessed was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Wednesday and sentenced to seven years in prison by a Fairfax County jury, which rejected his defense that he was insane.

The trial of Jamie A. Kuhne, 35, was emotionally charged, as jurors learned of a horrific childhood marked by repeated sexual abuse by his paternal grandfather and repeated beatings by his father.

A defense psychologist said that Kuhne was mentally ill and suffered from a dissociative disorder perhaps linked to his childhood trauma. Another defense expert said that Kuhne also had Asperger syndrome, a form of autism.

So Kuhne's attorneys asked a jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. "Jamie did not understand the nature, character and consequences of his act at the time," defense attorney Joseph T. Flood said. "His mind was not under the control of reason."

Fairfax prosecutors asked the jury to convict Kuhne of the first-degree murder of Minghua Zheng, 36. The prosecutors' mental expert said that Kuhne was not insane.

"Mental illness is not a license to kill in the commonwealth of Virginia," Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Katherine E. Stott said. "Please don't confuse the irrational matter of someone committing murder with someone who's insane. They're two different things."

The facts of the slaying, inside the couple's apartment near Herndon Parkway on Dec. 10, were not in dispute. The couple met in graduate school at George Mason University, were married in August 2007, had a son the next year and were in the process of divorcing.

Kuhne told police that he and Zheng began arguing over the terms of their divorce and that Zheng threatened to take their son to China and keep him from Kuhne forever. Kuhne said that the last thing he remembered was stepping toward his wife. When he awoke, he was on top of her, his hands around her neck, and she was dead.

Kuhne told police that he folded Zheng into a large suitcase and placed it on the apartment balcony so their son would not see her. In the morning, he took his son to day care, then returned home and wrote a note that said, "I did not mean for this to happen, I only wanted her to stop saying she would take my son away from me."

The note detailed where the boy was and provided names and contact information for people who might take care of him, as Kuhne was estranged from his family. He took the note to Herndon police headquarters, handed it to a woman at the front desk and then gave a videotaped confession, although he said he could not remember the actual killing.

As Flood and fellow defense attorney James G. Connell began meeting with Kuhne in jail and unspooling his life story, they felt that something wasn't quite right. In his statement to Sgt. Dennis Royal, for example, Kuhne was asked, "Are you working?" and Kuhne answered, straightforwardly, "No, I'm here with you."

Neuropsychologist Joette James examined Kuhne and determined that he had Asperger syndrome, characterized by difficulty interacting with others, noticing visual cues, and understanding humor or sarcasm.

Kuhne revealed a lengthy history of sexual abuse. In a taped statement made in jail and played for the jury, Kuhne discussed being raped by his grandfather repeatedly around age 5, when he lived in Pennsylvania. He also told of spankings and beatings by his father. Forensic psychologist Michael Hendricks said Kuhne had attempted suicide many times, surrendered with the intent of being executed and reported hearing voices.

"He didn't understand what he was actually doing" when he killed his wife, Hendricks said.

In her closing argument, Stott pointed to medical evidence that choking someone to death takes a minimum of four minutes. "That's not an act that occurs without someone knowing what they're doing," she said.

Flood said the threat of losing his son, "the only person he ever truly loved," overwhelmed Kuhne and sent him into a "profound dissociative state."

The boy has been temporarily placed with Kuhne's mother in Washington state, pending a final custody ruling.

The jury was given a range of options between first-degree murder and not guilty by reason of insanity, including second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and not guilty. After six hours of deliberation, the jury had split into two camps: most for second-degree murder, some for not guilty by reason of insanity, two jurors said.

So the jury compromised on voluntary manslaughter, jurors Grant Elliott and Dan Bogstad said. "The guy seemed to have no guile," Bogstad said. "So was he really motivated to kill her? Was it malice?"

Elliott said that even if the argument started in the heat of passion, at least four minutes of strangulation indicated an intent to kill. "I would have been comfortable with second-degree" murder, he said.

The jury could have given Kuhne up to 10 years in prison

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作者:逗逗小屋 留言时间:2010-10-21 20:35:52
椰子:其实我基本上每天都上网看新闻读博文,就是太懒没有冒泡。你的回国行,我也一直在看。写的很实在,很流畅,很好看。时间过得好快。我刚才看了一下,我的上一篇博文正好是一年前发的。这次冒泡实在是因为对判决不满。在我看来,被告方的“理由”都是借口...
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作者:逗逗小屋 留言时间:2010-10-21 20:04:18
ek8650:你说得对。如果丈夫是个容易失控的人,妻子要学会保护自己,不要说一些气话,让男人失去理智。但是根本上这还是丈夫的问题。有家暴的家庭,妻子还是应该尽早离开。据报道,明华曾经两次因家庭纠纷报警,都不了了之。最后一次是在被害前一个月。
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作者:椰子 留言时间:2010-10-21 13:43:56
逗逗,
很久不见啊!祝贺你回来,祝贺你的小宝贝三岁了,还记得他婴儿时你作得录像,他笑得那么甜,那么开心,三岁也是很好玩的!

你的女儿也长大了,她很有气质,很美,逗逗妈,你自己一定很投入地做着妈妈,所以没法常写博客了,敬佩!抱一下。

谢谢你分享这个新闻,为你的朋友而难过,婚姻的事情,真是要谨慎,对大家都是一个善意的提醒吧!

你常回来啊!
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作者:ek8650 留言时间:2010-10-21 12:09:03
离婚一定要给对方后路,不要往死里逼. 东西联姻对对方的过去及文化所知更少,更应该小心. 处理不当图让白发人送黑发人.
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作者:逗逗小屋 留言时间:2010-10-20 19:10:08
昭君:我也很高兴你来访。我太懒了,所以没有更新博客。可是明华的事情让我太难过了。孩子现在还在美国华盛顿州的奶奶家(凶手的母亲)等待裁决。你说的很对,配偶的精神健康太重要了。可是,又有多少“早知道”呢。可怜的是白发苍苍的老父母和幼小的孩子。。。
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作者:昭君 留言时间:2010-10-20 07:17:05
逗逗妈,好久不见,看见你真高兴!可是你这篇文章,又让人好难过。。。这个案子大概听说过,想不到你竟然认识这个妈妈!世界有时真的是太小太小了。。。
从你介绍的情况来看,这位丈夫应该是心理本身就有障碍的,不知他们结婚时明华是否了解他的这些情况? 是自闭症中很轻的一种,属于“high functioning autism”,主要是与人交往方面比较有问题,但好像一般结婚生孩子还是没有太障碍的。我想他的暴力倾向,可能更主要还是小时候受到的来自祖父和父亲的虐待造成的。所以精神健康,绝对是寻找伴侣的时候必须考虑的一个方面,否则出现这样的悲剧,真是悔之晚矣!!!
他们的孩子现在如何呢?谁在照料?照目前的判决,他服刑具七年后就可以回到社会正常生活了吗?如果他是精神问题导致的过失杀人,难道不应该对他采取精神病人应接受的治疗和限制吗?
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