Why was Le Yan convicted of intentional homicide instead of abandonment and abuse?

First of all, as for how Le Yan decides, the key depends on subjective intention. In the end, the court found that it was indirect intention to let the result happen knowing that locking two children at home would be life-threatening.

The Nanjing Intermediate People's Court held that the defendant, as the victim and Li's biological mother, had a legal obligation to support the victim. Le Yanming knew that leaving two young children in a closed room, without food and drinking water and foreign aid, would starve to death. He still left home for more than a month and didn't go home to take care of his daughter. Subjectively, he deliberately let his two daughters die. Objectively, the possibility of not raising, caring for and cutting off the foreign aid of the two victims was also implemented, which eventually led to the death of the two victims, and their behavior constituted the crime of intentional homicide.

Second, the Nanjing girl starved to death.

The mother of the girl who died of starvation in Nanjing, born in 199 1, has a history of drug abuse. She was punished by the public security department for taking drugs on 20 12, but she didn't execute it because of breastfeeding.

2065438+At 9 o'clock on June 2 1 2003, Wang Pingyuan, a community policeman from Qilin Police Station in Jiangning District, Nanjing, visited Le Yan's home, and found that no one answered at home, and Le Yan's cell phone was turned off. Wang Pingyuan felt something was wrong and called the locksmith to open the door. A shocking scene appeared: two young girls, one by the door and the other by the bed, had no breathing. They are Le Yan's daughters, aged 3 and 65 respectively. After forensic identification, it is not ruled out that he died of starvation and dehydration for more than two weeks. ...

On September 2013/8, the Nanjing intermediate people's court pronounced a verdict on the case of starving girls, and the defendant Le Yan was found guilty of intentional homicide. Because she was pregnant again, she was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of political rights for life.

Third, you can check the guidance cases online.

Criminal trial reference guide case No.992: Le Yan's intentional homicide case