In this article mother, Fang Chi-Xue, allegedly killed her 9 year old daughter and tried to strangle her 14 year ld daughter and stabbed herself in the abdomen, killing her unborn fetus. The mother, who at the time was 7½ months pregnant, is now being charged with one count of first degree murder and assault with the intent to murder. Those are not the only charges she could be facing, authorities are still waiting for autopsy results before they decide whether or not Chi- Xue should be charged with a second count of murder in the death of her unborn baby. According to authorities, they are not completely certain when all this took place but do that the 14 year old daughter make a phone call to the father while he was at work and he then call 911 and police finally arrived at 10:30pm. According to reports, the 14 year old suffered minor injuries when her mother tried to strangle her, the 9 year old suffered stab wounds to her wrist and it is still being investigated whether or not she was poisoned as well.
When looking at the scripting of this article there is a lot of emphasis placed on the individuals in the article and the development of how the reader should observe them. After the writer lays out what has taken place with somewhat graphic description, they then go on to say that the violence may have been sparked by an argument with her husband earlier in the evening. To think that all this took place after an argument after the horrific events have been describes, helps establish the mom’s character and can identify her as irrational and crazy. The article also uses interviews from individuals in their quaint Quincy, MA neighborhood, which is made up largely of Chinese and Vietnamese families. Yanmei Lin, the woman from across the street said that she would occasionally see Chi-Xue outside holding the younger child’s hand and she reported how is just so scary to think how all this could have happened. Lin’s comment in this piece may make this crime to look like a crime that occurred in the heat of the moment rather than this mother being serial murderer. Combining both the argument with the husband and this report from Lin, it is probably safe to say that these actions were not premeditated but rather an enormous amount of built up emotional stress, possibly having coming from the children. The ensuing conversation with her husband may have been about the children so it may have flipped a switch and caused her to attempt to kill off all of her offspring.
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