A father and his girlfriend have been sentenced to death in China after he threw his two children from his apartment building because his new girlfriend did not want another woman’s kids.
Two young children were killed when a tower in Chongqing fell on 2 November 2013.
Zhang Bo’s 2-year-old daughter Zhang Ruixue was killed instantly while Zhang Yangrui (1 year) succumbed shortly thereafter to injuries.
Ye Chengchen was 27 years old and had already met her. She wanted to marry him, but she wouldn’t accept him, as he had several children. Her parents also refused to take his place.

Zhang Bo, 27 (right), had his 2 and 1 year-old children thrown from his Chongqing apartment because Ye Chengchen, Ye’s new girlfriend, wouldn’t allow him to marry her while he was the dad of someone else’s children.
To show that she was not able to have a family, his girlfriend pressured him to get rid of them.
The man then apparently threw the children out of the windows before running down to express his grief at the events.
Prosecutors said that he was just crying and banging on the wall.
At the time, he claimed that he had fallen asleep as the children fell from the windows. He said that people called him downstairs to wake him up after finding the bodies lying on the grass.

Zhang Bo’s 2-year-old daughter Zhang Ruixue was killed instantly while Zhang Yangrui (1 year) succumbed shortly thereafter to injuries.

The two children were thrown from a balcony on the 15th-floor of Bo’s apartment complex in the municipality of Chongqing
Chen Meilin Zhang’s ex-wife told local media that Chengchen was against Zhang getting children.
Zhang had a relationship started with Chengchen when he was still married. Meilin got divorced later. The custody of the children was divided, with the daughter staying with her mother while the boy with his father remaining with him until the six-year-old.
He asked for his daughter’s care on the date he murdered them both after seeing her girlfriend cut her wrists in a video chat.
Chen, the mother of the children who died said that Zhang had been on a video call with Ye at the time. Zhang was scared, so she cut her wrists. After dropping the phone, he grabbed the children from her and then threw them out of the balcony.
Ye, according to local media reports that the father confessed to planning to kill his children to create a new family.
Ex-wife of suspect said that she heard her children being thrown from the 15th floor by their father and mistress. She couldn’t even describe how it felt.

Photo: Two Chinese children were murdered in an apartment block.
“I could not imagine the horrors my children had endured from the 15th to the 30th floors. Did they feel desperate? They were afraid.
While her husband cried and apologized in court for his actions, her girlfriend denied all accusations.
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Zhang was, reportedly, sentenced on 28 December to death for the murder of his children. For urging the father to commit the crime, Zhang’s girlfriend was sentenced as well.
The decision is not yet up for appeal.