Advocates urge pardon in ‘compassionate killing’ caseBy Wang Chien-hao and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerDisability advocates yesterday called for a presidential pardon for an elderly man convicted in a “compassionate killing” case, while asking for more support for people with cerebral palsy and their caregivers. Chen’s daughter, then 50 years old, was bedridden since childhood due to severe cerebral palsy and mental disability. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Charles Chen, center, and cerebral palsy advocates call for a presidential pardon for an elderly caregiver at a news conference at the legislature in Taipei yesterday. Huang said she fears that Chen’s case would be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” that makes families of people with cerebral palsy lose hope. This case “was not the first, nor will it be the last,” Kaohsiung City Cerebral Palsy Association founding chairwoman Wang Kang-feng (王岡鳳) said.
