Free Web NovelChapter 863: Chapter 319: The Entire Industry in Uproar, Court in Session!
The reason he stayed...
was mainly because he understood Qin Xueyi’s family situation.
During this time, Qin Xueyi had been taking care of the elderly.
They took Qin Xueyi away...
but also had to make arrangements for the elderly.
"Do you... have any relatives or close friends? You could call them to come over."
The officer paused, then added a sentence.
But the elderly man...
seemed as if he hadn’t heard him, standing there stunned.
His expression was full of disbelief.
After knowing the truth...
he suddenly felt a sense of desolation.
He had cancer, indeed not much time left.
Whether to treat or not, it made little difference.
But his son used his illness...
to seek donations from society and used the money to buy a house.
Recollecting Qin Xueyi’s strange reactions these days, he instantly understood everything.
So.
His son didn’t have any terminal illness, just simply couldn’t trick money!
Thinking of this.
He couldn’t help but burst into tears, not knowing if he was angry or sad.
"Old man, you... should call some other relatives, let them come to take care of you." freeweɓnovel.cѳm
Seeing the elderly still silent, the officer reminded once more.
The elderly man let out a long sigh.
His gaze flickered.
He said softly, "Me... my eldest son went to another city, ever since he got married, he hasn’t cared about me."
"My second daughter also married to another city, my son-in-law dislikes that I have no education, didn’t let her keep in touch with me."
"The fourth... had a car accident a few years ago, still paralyzed in bed."
"Only the third, but even the third is in trouble..."
As he spoke.
Tears filled his eyes.
Plus, he himself had cancer.
Life is like this.
He no longer had the courage to live.
The only dutiful one, the third, didn’t genuinely treat his illness.
Instead, used his illness to scam kind-hearted people’s money.
Now the cunning trick has failed.
He has implicated himself.
"You... none of your children have fulfilled their obligations to support you?"
Upon hearing this, the officer was quite shocked.
For a moment, he didn’t know what to say.
"Alas."
The elderly man smiled bitterly, seemingly resigned to fate: "It’s not their fault, I have no education, just a country person, not qualified to demand their support..."
"But how can that be!"
The officer frowned, looked at the old man.
Seriously reminded him: "The law stipulates that all children must fulfill their obligations to support parents, for whatever reason, they cannot refuse support!"
"You might not know, here in Jin City, there was an earlier case of not supporting parents, in the end..."
Looking at the hopeless old man.
The officer patiently comforted him, told about the support case handled by Qin Mu.
This case...
At that time, everyone felt there was no way to punish those ungrateful children.
But after going through a lawsuit, all of them were given probation!
Later, it was said...
many things followed, these people even had their probation revoked, and were sentenced to actual imprisonment!
"This... can this work?"
The old man sitting in a wheelchair suddenly raised his head, a glimmer flashed in his eyes.
His children’s attitude towards him was rather harsh.
But he had never thought of suing his children.
"Of course it can."
The officer nodded: "You should first contact your children, let them come to pick you up. If they refuse to support you, then you contact me, I’ll help you contact the local police."
This case happened locally.
It has a certain civil nature, needs to be divided according to jurisdiction, the Jin City Police Station cannot overstep their authority.
"Okay, okay, okay..."
The old man nodded repeatedly, took out the old-style phone from his pocket.
Dialed a number.
...
Jin City.
Nursing home.
In the legal advisor’s office.
After turning off the "Hundred Hits Hundred Misses" skill,
Qin Mu’s daily life could be described as very leisurely.
No trouble sought him out.
After arriving at the courtyard.
He sat down, started fishing.
Occasionally browsing the Study Law Alliance Forum, looking at those "Crouching Dragons and Hidden Phoenixes" above.
"Eh? These crowdfunding donation apps have been reformed again?"
Unintentionally.
He opened apps like Water Drop Fund, suddenly noticed these apps underwent a new round of reform.
Compared to before.
The reform was very standardized.
All processes required corresponding documents to proceed to the next step.
If the economic situation is not to a certain level of poverty, fundraising is not allowed.
Though this can’t eliminate all fraudulent fundraising, it can prevent other "Qin Xueyi" from appearing.
Just...
What he didn’t understand was, not only Water Drop Fund, all other platforms gradually underwent reform.
In a moment.
The entire industry was deeply affected, many disorders disappeared.
"Could it be... the authorities intervened? Letting the industry reform?"
Qin Mu blinked, uncertainly saying.
Otherwise...
He truly couldn’t fathom who could have such power, to single-handedly prompt a reform across the entire industry.
To be aware.
The reason these platforms tacitly accepted these phenomena was because they could profit from them.
After all, the money from fraudulent donations wasn’t theirs.
They naturally wouldn’t worry about it.
But doing this now is completely cutting off their own money stream.
It takes a certain level of "awareness" to carry out such actions.
"Xiao Qin, did you forget something?"
Just as he pondered the mystery, Zhang Qingyuan suddenly burst into his office with a group of elderly people.
They began shouting.
"Isn’t today the day of the trial? How could you forget? Quickly set up the screen and projector!"
"It’s almost ten o’clock, the trial is about to start, and you’re just sitting here eating sunflower seeds?"
"We’ve waited for so many days and finally have a case, make sure not to miss the trial!"
"Ahem, actually we’ve already set up the projector for you, just waiting for you to cast the live stream."
"..."
A group of elderly surrounded him.
Their faces eager.
Continuously urging.
Qin Mu’s face darkened, only then did he realize.
Today.
Is the trial day for Zhou Xiaoqing’s case, focusing on those who instigated malicious behavior leading to Zhou Xiaoqing’s suicide attempt.
Guilty or not guilty, sentenced or not, depends on today.
"Let’s go."
Looking at the eager eyes of the elderly.
He put down his sunflower seeds.
Directly stood up.
Headed to the yard.
To his surprise, the elderly had really set up the projection screen and equipment.
What he needed to do...
Was just to project the live stream.
"Luckily, it’s right at ten o’clock."
Qin Mu took out his phone and checked the time.
Then he entered the trial livestream website, found the live broadcast of a certain district court in Wan City.
Projected it onto the screen.
On the dark curtain, the ongoing trial scene appeared.
"Bang—"
The sound of the judge’s gavel echoed.
A female judgment chief sat in the central position of the scene, solemnly speaking, "Today, the First Criminal Trial Court of xx District Court in Wan City, will publicly try the case of Gu Hongda, Bao Feiwen, and others, totaling 439 people, suspected of malicious behavior, online defamation."
"I will serve as judgment chief, organizing a collegiate bench to conduct focused examination of this case according to the law."
And below the courtroom.
At the prosecution seat, stood two solemn and dignified prosecutors.
Beside them were Zhou Xiaoqing’s parents, Zhou Zhen and Wang Xia.
At the defendant’s seat...
Due to limited space, only Gu Hongda, Bao Feiwen, and five others were present.
The remaining individuals...
Were in the waiting court, watching the live broadcast, waiting to appear for trial.
"Now, please have the prosecutors state the facts and read the indictment."
Next.
The trial officially began, as a prosecutor stood up.
In front of the entire court.
He passionately accused, "On the 1st of this month, Zhou Xiaoqing, a sixth-grade student in Wan City’s xx Elementary School, encountered a fundraising incident while online at home, and donated one yuan."
"While commenting on a specific platform, he inadvertently disclosed his donation of one yuan, subsequently being criticized, ridiculed, and verbally abused by other netizens on that platform."
"Among the comments were some extreme remarks like ’why don’t you just die’."
"Thereafter, multiple defenses by Zhou Xiaoqing were in vain, leading him to jump off from his home’s balcony due to suicidal tendencies, and he remains unconscious."
"Our court believes that the involved individuals, Gu Hongda, Bao Feiwen, and others conducted moral accusing, verbal abuse, maliciously guiding towards suicidal thoughts to a twelve-year-old minor resulting in serious consequences..."
"Their actions have violated the criminal law in our country..."
"Therefore, our court files a lawsuit requesting the conviction of Gu Hongda, Bao Feiwen, and others for defamation, malicious behavior."
"Sentencing Gu Hongda to seven years imprisonment, Bao Feiwen to three years, Liu Lin to one year, Zhou Qiayun to..."
More than a dozen names and their sentencing were read aloud.
The prosecutor realized the number was too significant to recite completely.
So promptly concluded with "etc."
"Bang—"
In the courtroom.
The judgment chief struck his gavel, then looked at the defendants’ seat, "Defendants, do you have any objections to the facts and actions claimed by the prosecutors?"
"I do!"
Gu Hongda, at the defendants’ seat, quickly stood up to argue for himself, "This issue is just a regular online dispute, I think it shouldn’t be elevated like this, don’t we have the basic freedom of online speech anymore?"
"I merely said a few words online, if this is considered a crime, who will dare speak freely on the internet in the future?"
"If everyone speaks only falsehoods, flattery, what future does society have?"
He vented the stress he had been feeling these past few days.
Firmly refusing to acknowledge guilt.
Others like Bao Feiwen also nodded agreeing, "Even during the Ming Dynasty, speech wasn’t criminalized, are we nowadays worse off than ancient times?"
"We neither stole, nor robbed, nor forced Zhou Xiaoqing to commit suicide, this behavior was his own doing, can this be blamed on us?"
"If calculated in this manner, if I trip and fall while walking, should the road builders be held accountable?"
These people were full of indignation.
Resolutely denying their actions constituted a crime.
Actually.
These were all advised by their lawyers.
They aimed not to go to jail...
Only by finding ways to shirk this responsibility!
Otherwise...
Malicious behavior leading to severe consequences, with someone seeking death, has at least a five-year starting sentence!
"Bang—"
After numerous defendants spoke, the sound of the gavel echoed once more.
The judgment chief nodded, summarizing, "Given that, the focus of this trial is whether the defendants’ online speech constitutes a crime and whether they should be punished!"
"Next, both sides will engage in debate over this focus!"
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