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Updated Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:49 am TWN, The China Post news staff

'Mercy killing' father given lenient sentence

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Supreme Court has given a lenient sentence to a father who killed his mentally challenged son out of “mercy,” the Central News Agency reported yesterday.

The father, surnamed Yen, 57, was given two years and six months for strangling his 21-year-old son, as the court decided that it was a case of “mercy killing,” CNA said. The son had been rejected by a home for the mentally challenged because of his violent behavior and incapability of taking care of himself. According to the report, last year the father reasoned that he and his wife were ageing and could not be around to take care of the son for long. After their death, no one would take care of the son.

The father then killed the son and turned himself in to police.

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