Parents Express Anger Over China Milk Verdicts

[NashVegas]

Source: AFP

Angry parents of victims in China's milk scandal accused the government Friday of holding show trials and giving little help to their sick children, after the high-profile sentencing of 21 people.

A court in northern China on Thursday gave two men the death penalty and jailed 18 others for terms ranging from two years to life for their roles in the poisoning of milk last year with the industrial chemical melamine.

The melamine was mixed into watered-down milk in what was apparently a widespread practice to give dairy products the appearance of higher protein content.

The state-run media said the verdicts had delivered justice to the families of the six babies who died and nearly 300,000 others who fell ill after drinking the contaminated milk last year.
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Li and other parents wanted the death penalty for Tian, 66, a former member of China's ruling Communist Party and head of the Sanlu dairy company who is the highest-profile person to have faced court over the scandal.

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This is one I'd like to place on the desk of every accountant working in AgriBusiness.

[NashVegas]

1. Is It Safe to Assume

We're all a little uncomfortable with this?

[lovuian]

2. this was intentional

and killing babies is the worse crime

[LeftHander]

3. CICD Inc. Intl.

China Industrial Chemical and Dairy Incorporated International.

Stocks down 1.5% today.