Chinese couple are executed after father killed his two toddlers by throwing them off a 15th-floor balcony because his new girlfriend saw them as a ‘burden on their future together’

Based On A True Story
5 min readJan 31, 2024

Today’s case takes us to Chongqing, a city located in the southwest of China. There in 2017, the couple formed by Zhang Bo and Chen Meilin got married.

Although there is hardly any data from their biography, it is known that in 2018 they welcomed Zhang Ruixue, their first daughter in common and a year later they had a boy whom they called Zhang Yangrui.

In mid-2019, Zhang asked his wife for a divorce because he had started a relationship with Ye Chengchen. But Zhang was not sincere with his new girlfriend since he hid that he had two children.

At the end of the year Ye discovered by third parties that his partner was a father. Although she continued with the relationship, the young woman did not stop complaining that her family could not tolerate that her…

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