An 80-year-old woman from Taipei’s Songshan District, surnamed Liu, who had raised her severely disabled son single-handedly for more than 50 years, was finally sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for killing him. The court described the incident as a “tragic burden of long-term caregiving” and unusually referred to the presidential pardon … Continue reading Killing Son to End Half a Century of Caregiving Burden—Elderly Mother Sentenced to Prison