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BEIJING: A kindergarten teacher in China was sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague who left a small child dead.
A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite in a porridge he was preparing for his colleague’s students, making 25 sick.
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The attack took place in March 2019 and left a child seriously ill for months before dying in January this year, according to news reports.
The Jiaozuo City Intermediate People’s Court said on Monday (September 28) that Wang knew sodium nitrite was harmful, but went ahead “regardless of the consequences,” leaving many innocent children in the hospital.
News reports last year said the children began vomiting and fainting after eating breakfast.
Kindergarten students in China are between three and six years old.
Wang received the death penalty this week for the crime of using dangerous substances.
Sodium nitrite is used to cure meats, but it can be toxic when ingested in large amounts.
Wang concealed the reasons for the poisoning after committing the crime and his “motives were despicable,” the court said.
Her “criminal methods and circumstances were extremely bad, with especially severe circumstances, and she should be severely punished according to the law,” the sentencing statement read.
The court added that Wang and the kindergarten manager should compensate the children’s families.
It was not the first time that Wang used sodium nitrite to poison someone, authorities said. In 2017, she put it in her husband’s cup, causing minor injuries.
In March last year, 36 primary school students in southwest China’s Sichuan province were hospitalized after eating “moldy food.”
