80-Year-Old Wife Who Killed Husband with Dementia After 7 Years of Care… 5-Year Prison Sentence Upheld in Second Trial
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An 80-year-old wife who was caring for her husband with dementia was sentenced to five years in prison in both the first and second trials for strangling him to death. The court determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation due to neck compression and did not accept the defendant's claim of an accidental death; furthermore, due to the defendant's denial of the crime, the family's plea for leniency was not taken into account in sentencing.
An 80-year-old wife accused of ultimately killing her husband, who suffered from dementia, after nursing him for seven years, has been sentenced to five years in prison. According to legal sources on the 11th, the 3rd Criminal Division of the Suwon High Court (Presiding Judge Cho Hyo-jeong) [reviewed] the appeals from both sides in the appeal trial of A, an 80-year-old woman indicted on murder charges.
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