‘Savage abuse’: Hong Kong mother gets 22 years for starving boy, 5, to death

A Hong Kong mother who abused and starved her five-year-old son to death was sentenced to 22 years in prison, with the judge condemning a crime that exposed a “savage nature utterly devoid of the empathy inherent to motherhood”. Madam Justice Susana D’Almada Remedios on Wednesday said she had to impose the heavy sentence on the 37-year-old mother, whom she said had committed the worst form of child cruelty and negligence, causing her son to die of starvation in September 2022. The boy weighed...