Woman in China who had five babies in succession to avoid a jail sentence caught by authorities
- China grants exemptions from jail time in prison for pregnant women and nursing mothers
- The woman was sentenced to more than nine years in prison but avoided it by continuously having babies
A woman in China has avoided jail for 10 years by becoming pregnant and giving birth to five babies successively in the past decade, local authorities have revealed.
The unidentified woman from China’s eastern Jiangsu province was sentenced to over nine years in jail for theft in 2011 but was allowed to serve her sentence outside of jail because she was pregnant at the time, the Donghai County People’s Procuratorate said in a post on its WeChat account last week.
Taking advantage of the exemption, she fell pregnant with a new baby each time her nursing period was about to end.
As a result, she escaped imprisonment and was put under community correction at home instead, despite committing more crimes in the past decade.
Local authorities finally sent her to jail last month after she fled home when she failed to get pregnant in time to avoid her jail sentence.
“Chief, I’m leaving home for a month. Will be back after I get pregnant,” read a message she sent to the head of the county’s justice bureau, which is responsible for her community correction, in March.