Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Police station.
Jiang Lan and his companions were taken to the reception room by a young policeman and asked to sit and wait.
Afterwards, the young policeman took Jiang Chi to the next door alone where he took photos of his injuries as evidence. The bruises on Jiang Chi’s neck had spread, and the large area looked really scary. There were injuries to varying degrees on his back, elbows, and nails. The policeman used a camera to take photos of the scars on Jiang Chi’s body one by one.
After the photoshoot, he patted Jiang Chi on the head and whispered in his ear, “Tell your brother when we get back that you should go to the institution we designate to get your injuries assessed before going to the hospital to treat these injuries. It shouldn’t be a problem to identify these injuries as minor.”
According to the law, anyone who intentionally injured another person and caused minor injury shall be held criminally liable and sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years.
Although Yao Shun was a mental patient and could be exempted from criminal responsibility by issuing a mental illness evaluation certificate, there was still a period of time in between, which was enough to make the family anxious for a while.
Moreover, if a mentally ill person injured someone, the guardian must pay civil compensation to the victim. When Jiang Chi and others asked for more compensation, they could use this as a basis.
When the young policeman was in the hospital, he couldn’t stand the unreasonableness and domineering behavior of that family, but due to his status he couldn’t confront them head-on, so he had to endure it.
Seeing Jiang Chi staring at him without saying anything, the young policeman felt even more distressed. He didn’t expect Jiang Chi to respond. The kid was smart, so he just needed him to remember his words.
“Let’s go back and find your brother.”
Jiang Chi followed him back to the reception room in silence.
The young policeman had other things to do, so he sent him to the door and was about to leave. But as soon as he turned around, he heard Jiang Chi suddenly speak in a low voice, “Thank you.”
His movements paused, and he turned around in surprise. Then Jiang Chi lowered his head slightly, as if the person who had just spoken was not him.
“Don’t listen to those people, you are a good boy.” The young policeman smiled sincerely, squatted down and patted him on the shoulder before waving to him and turning away.
Jiang Chi pushed the door open and walked into the reception room, then sat down next to Jiang Lan.
The Yao couple sat opposite them. When Mother Yao saw Jiang Chi coming back, she muttered loudly, “It’s just a minor flesh wound, and you still need to do an appraisal. What can you find out?”
Jiang Lan turned his head to look at her and suddenly smiled at her: “Officer Fang just said that Yao Shun needs a mental illness evaluation certificate to be exempted from criminal responsibility?”
“If he can’t get a certificate, he will have to go to jail, right?”
Mother Yao was stunned, then said disdainfully: “You said it can’t be obtained? Who do you think you are?”
“I’m a nobody, I’m just an ordinary citizen, but if I say it can’t be obtained, then it can’t be obtained. If you don’t believe me, you can try it.”
Jiang Lan finished speaking slowly, then leisurely picked up the glass of water in front of him and took a sip.
Mother Yao looked at his determined expression and felt a little panicked for no reason. She wanted to say something to save face, but Father Yao, who was standing next to her, pulled her back and she reluctantly shut her mouth.
Although she was angry, she did not dare to provoke Jiang Lan again.
After the four of them waited in the reception room for nearly an hour, the police officer in charge finally sorted out the case, and Fang Wen, the veteran policeman who had led the investigation before, was held responsible for communicating with them.
It would take time to assess Jiang Chi’s injuries, and Yao Shun’s mental illness also needed to be assessed at a designated hospital. So Fang Wen could only tell them the possible situation at the moment.
“Jiang Chi is not yet an adult, and Yao Shun’s behavior in the ward has constituted intentional injury. According to relevant laws and regulations, injuries to minors will be dealt with more severely as appropriate. Minor injuries are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, and serious injuries are sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of three to ten years…”
“Wait, my son is mentally ill, so he doesn’t have to bear legal responsibility, right?!” Mother Yao stood up angrily and interrupted him: “Don’t scare us with alarmist rhetoric here!”
“Ms. Yao, I haven’t finished what I’m saying yet. If you have any questions, please wait until I finish speaking.”
Fang Wen frowned at her, tapped the table heavily with the pen in his hand, and continued to say to Jiang Lan: “The injury assessment needs to be done at a designated institution, and after the certificate is issued, it should be handed over to the police station, and we will handle it according to the assessment results.”
Jiang Lan nodded: “I understand.”
Fang Wen nodded, then turned to Mother Yao and said, “Yao Shun’s behavior has constituted intentional injury. If you want to prove that he is incompetent, you need to go to a designated institution to get a mental illness evaluation certificate.”
He handed two different documents to each of them: “These are the documents needed to get the certificate.”
Mother Yao flipped through the book casually and asked impatiently, “If a certificate is issued, then this matter has nothing to do with us, right?”
Her face was filled with the urgency of shirking responsibility, and she had no sense of guilt or apology towards the victim. Even though Fang Wen had seen many such weird things over the years, he still felt seriously uncomfortable.
“We just won’t hold Yao Shun criminally responsible,” Fang Wen said with a gloomy face, “but Yao Shun was at fault in this matter and should compensate the victim. If you can get a certificate, then it means the guardian failed to supervise him properly and civil compensation will be required; if you can’t get a certificate, then Yao Shun will need to bear criminal responsibility and also pay compensation.”
“Do you understand what I’m saying?”
Mother Yao nodded awkwardly, but still argued unwillingly: “His injuries don’t look serious. Just buy some iodine and wipe it off. Isn’t it enough to pay for the medical expenses?”
Fang Wen had a blank expression on his face: “This requires you to negotiate on your own later. If the negotiation fails, you can take legal action.”
When Mother Yao heard that they were going to court, her face turned a little unhappy, and she muttered: “How much compensation can be paid? Why do we have to go to court?”
Fang Wen ignored her and told the person in charge about the situation in the hospital. Two patients had accidents in the hospital, and another patient’s condition worsened and she died suddenly. The hospital could not shirk its responsibility. However, the police station had no control over these matters. It depended on how the hospital negotiated with both parties.
Fang Wen informed them of the case. After all three parties had no objection, they signed and then returned to the hospital from the police station.
The person in charge took them to the conference room to negotiate compensation.
As soon as the door of the conference room was closed, Mother Yao’s face changed, and she slammed the table angrily and said, “My son has encountered such an incident in your hospital. We will not let it go.”
The person in charge was a tough guy. So even though the conference table was slammed by her, he did not show weakness at this time and said coldly: “Mrs. Yao, we are here to negotiate a solution, not to fight violently.”
“Your son broke his leg due to a sudden mental illness. The hospital agreed to your request out of humanitarianism and admitted the patient to a general ward for treatment. But we admitted the patient with conditions, requiring that the restraints must not be loosened and that someone be with him 24 hours a day. You also signed a letter of guarantee when you admitted him. But in fact, you did not fulfill your promise and untied the restraints without permission, which led to the patient breaking free from the restraints and hurting others.”
“The police have already explained the patient’s fall from the building. You are primarily responsible for the fall. After the hospital discovered that the patient had escaped, it immediately contacted the fire department for rescue.”
All in all, if Mother Yao hadn’t taken the initiative to untie the restraints at the beginning, there might not have been the series of troubles afterwards.
The person in charge pinched the bridge of his nose and said, “We will not shirk the responsibility that the hospital should bear, and we are willing to actively and appropriately compensate. But if you want to take the opportunity to extort money, then we will have no choice but to take legal action.”
His attitude was tough, not bluffing.
Mother Yao originally wanted to show her power as soon as she entered the door, and at the same time make her attitude clear, so that the hospital would consciously pay more compensation. However, she did not expect that the person in charge of the hospital would take the initiative to defeat her, and his attitude was even quite tough.
Her expression suddenly froze, and she didn’t know how to react for a moment. Seeing this, Father Yao next to her spoke up to smooth things over, “She just has a bad temper. We came here to negotiate. We are not afraid of a lawsuit, but we are worried about the bad impact on the hospital.”
He and Mother Yao sang the same tune, one played the bad cop and the other played the good cop. They said they were doing it for their own good, but they were actually scraping meat with a knife in their hands.
The person in charge thus did not buy it: “The hospital is not afraid of lawsuits. We are not the party at fault. Why should we be afraid of bad influence?”
Father Yao was choked by him and looked a little embarrassed: “We are worrying too much.”
After giving them a slap in the face, they were given a sweet date. The person in charge smiled again and pushed the compensation plan to them: “This is the draft compensation. Take a look at it first. If you have any objections, we can negotiate again.”
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