Chinese Kindergarten Teacher To Die For Her School Crime

A court in China says a former kindergarten teacher "should be punished severely in accordance with the law," and thus has sentenced Wang Yun to death. Yun killed one child and sickened two dozen others by adding sodium nitrite to their porridge on the morning of March 27, 2019. The poisoning came after Wang argued with a fellow teacher "over student management issues," and that the porridge she tampered with was intended for that teacher's class as "revenge." News reports at the time described the children as vomiting and fainting after consuming it. One of them reportedly spent 10 months in the hospital before dying in January. The court called Wang "despicable and vicious" and noted it wasn't her first poisoning: She allegedly put the same chemical in her husband's mug in 2017, though he suffered only minor injuries.