Massachusetts Mom Charged in Deaths of 9-Year-Old Daughter, Unborn Baby

Source: AP

DEDHAM, Mass. — A Massachusetts woman charged in the deaths of her 9-year-old daughter and unborn son has been arraigned on murder and manslaughter charges, but an evaluation done for the court found her still incompetent to face trial.

Authorities say Fang Chi-Xue of Quincy fatally stabbed her 9-year-old daughter in April and stabbed herself in the abdomen, killing her unborn baby. She is also accused of trying to strangle her 14-year-old daughter, who told police her mother believed her husband was going to leave her.

Chi-Xue was arraigned Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf after the judge was told she remains mentally incompetent.

She is due back in court March 12, when a new report on her competency is due.


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Pregnant 9-year old? Whoa!

she stabbed the daughter

when a mother will take her children with her in a suicide because she knows they won't fare very well without her.

Yes, it's a distorted way of thinking but suicide is always a distorted way to think unless one is terminally ill and in intractable pain.

Based on the name and the fact that there are large settlements in my area, so the name looks similar to the names I've seen around here.

The Hmong are a very tribal people with a lot of social rules and expectations we don't realize. If she didn't speak English and was kept entirely in their conservative society, she may have acted out of a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness, rather than vengeance or rage. Or, as we occasionally find in every other social group, she could simply be insane.

But it wouldn't be proper to make assumptions before the whole series of events and her defense are heard in court.

She killed her 9 yoa daughter and tried to strangle her 14 yoa daughter.
The woman stabbed herself in the abdomen killing her unborn child.

said,God help her.

She obviously is insane and if she ever regains her sanity will have to live with this the rest of her life.

didn't know MA did.

If she went to a clinic and had it done by a doctor it's legal. Do it yourself and it's murder. Makes no sense to me either.

Aren't people routinely charged with that when they perform abortions but aren't doctors (particularly when the woman dies)?

Too bad she took others with her.