Nantou charges suspect in murder of four-year-oldBy Chen Feng-li and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Nantou District Prosecutors’ Office on Monday charged a suspect in the killing of a four-year-old girl and asked a court to sentence him to life in prison or death. The girl’s mother, surnamed Peng (彭), 29, and her boyfriend, surnamed Chen (陳), 37, were detained by police on Sept. 4 on suspicion of murder and abandonment of a corpse. A law enforcement officer in Nantou County, right, on Sept. 4 escorts a man, surnamed Chen, who was on Monday charged with killing the four-year-old daughter of his girlfriend. Photo copied by Liu Pin-chuan, Taipei TimesPolice found bruises and other injuries on the girl’s body, and an autopsy found amphetamines and Rohypnol, a tranquilizer, in her system. An autopsy on the girl’s body revealed damage to the membrane lining the brain, they said.

Source: Taipei Times October 28, 2020 15:56 UTC