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Wuhan Evening News Wuhan View (Reporter Yang Wei) Many people’s understanding of domestic violence may still be limited to physical violence. In fact, mental threats and attacks also belong to it. Today, reporters learned that a man hit a cloth bag with his wife’s name on it and wrapped a basketball in front of his wife, but the case was deemed domestic violence by the judiciary.
"I didn't hit her, I hit the ball." Zhang Sheng said that he and his wife Zeng Li met and got married in 2009 through an introduction. A year later, his wife gave birth to a son. As the children grow up, the financial burden increases. Zhang Sheng, who has a bad temper, gets angry when he is stressed. He often quarrels with his wife and wants to hit her several times. Zhang Sheng endured the "crime" of "violence" and "beating his wife".
In the summer of 2014, after Zhang Sheng quarreled with Zeng Li again, he went out to drink with some buddies. One of his friends gave him an idea. He could use something else to replace Zhang Sheng’s wife. When he was angry, he would hit something. This not only vented his anger, but also Can be exempted from liability.
So, Zhang Sheng, who loves to play basketball, found a piece of white cloth, wrapped the basketball at home, and then wrote his wife Zeng Li's name and the words "I want to beat Zeng Li to death" on the white cloth, and hung it on the Balcony at home. From then on, whenever he had a conflict with his wife, he would hit her "out of touch" in front of her.
"Although he didn't really hit me, I was scared when I heard the sound." Zeng Li said that every time she saw Zhang Sheng hit the basketball with his name on it hard, and saw him throwing the ball hard while swearing. When she stepped towards the corner and stomped the ball with her feet, she could feel her husband's anger, as if these fists were hitting her body. "If there is no ball, I will be the one who gets hit." Zeng Li said that until now, when she hears other people shooting the ball or sees the basketball, she feels inexplicably nervous.
Last year, after the two had a fierce quarrel, Zeng Li, who couldn't bear it anymore, took Zhang Sheng to court and asked for a divorce.
What Zhang Sheng didn't expect was that the court not only granted the divorce, but also determined that Zhang Sheng's behavior was domestic violence. The court held that Zhang Sheng wrote offensive and threatening words on Zeng Li on the bag wrapped in the basketball, and often hit the ball. This was to visually torture the opponent and create a sense of fear in the opponent. His behavior constituted a mental violation. Violence caused Zeng Li to suffer mental damage. Zhang Sheng should bear the fault liability and should not directly raise the children because of his domestic violence. The court also ordered Zhang Sheng to compensate Zeng Li 5,000 yuan in solatium for mental damage.
“This is a case in which threats were judicially recognized as a means of domestic violence.” Lawyer Qiu Dan analyzed that my country’s Anti-Domestic Violence Law, which was implemented on March 1, 2016, clarified that the scope of domestic violence includes physical violence and Psychological violence is illegal. In this case, the man's behavior made the woman feel scared and frightened, so she obeyed him. This behavior constituted domestic violence. At the same time, Lawyer Qiu also called on the victims of domestic violence to have zero tolerance for domestic violence and to take up legal weapons to prevent and combat domestic violence. (Editor: Zhang Yinghui)
