Woman gets 7 years for burning nephew  

女子用油浇5岁侄子点燃后离开 庭审称与其无关(图)

5岁的侄子玩儿火，用打火机点泡沫，还不服管教。身为伯母的祁某将燃油洒在侄子身上，并用打火机点燃，致使侄子烧伤30%，重度吸入性损伤，经鉴定构成重伤。昨天，祁某被通州法院一审以故意杀人罪判处有期徒刑7年。她当庭表示要上诉，称侄子烧伤与她无关。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A woman in Beijing's Tongzhou district, surnamed Qi, who was accused of burning her 5-year-old nephew last September, was sentenced to seven years in jail by Tongzhou Court on Thursday.

Even after the judgment was announced, Qi insisted on her innocence, and made an appeal to the court.

According to the court, on Sept 6, 2012, Qi caught her nephew playing with fire near their house. Qi, who tried to stop him, was angered by the boy's disobedient attitude. She then poured oil on his body and burned him with a lighter.

Qi once confessed that she did pour oil on the boy and burned him on Sept 11, but at a hearing in Tongzhou Court on June 14, Qi withdrew her confession and claimed that she was innocent, and that she had nothing to do with burning the boy.

Because the burns covered 30 percent of the boy's body, they were defined as a severe injury by an official forensic center in Tongzhou district.