Beijing, China

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In a heart-wrenching incident, a Chinese husband brutally beat his wife and blinded her two months after their marriage because the latter refused to top up his online gaming account. 

The woman, who hailed from Inner Mongolia in northern China, was introduced to her husband through a relative in 2022.

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Before their marriage, the couple had a lot of arguments over the man's gaming obsession, however, since he treated his to-be-wife with care, the woman went ahead with the marriage.

Wife suffers irreversible blindness in domestic violence

The couple relocated to Henan province after their marriage when the husband started demanding money from his wife for gaming. 

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Two months after their marriage, the husband demanded 10,000 yuan (US$1,400) from his wife, however, she refused to pay as her bride price had depleted. 

The husband then started punching her in rage because of which her nose bled. “He punched me, then hit me with a frying pan,” the wife said.

The husband's mother, who was on a video call, said to his son, “If she does not give you money, beat her to death.”

The husband stopped beating his wife when the former's cousin intervened while he was trying to strangle her with pyjamas.

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The wife was taken to the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, where she spent three months in coma in the ICU.

Once she woke up, the doctors found that she had lost her sight. She was diagnosed with optic atrophy, which made her blind.

Her family spent a lot of money on medical treatments, however, doctors informed them that she had suffered damage to her optic nerves, which is irreversible.

“He comes from a wealthy family, worth millions, but they only gave us 36,000 yuan (US$5000); a contribution made in the hope it would reduce his sentence,” said the victim's mother, while speaking to Spot News.

The court sentenced the husband to 11 years of imprisonment for intentional homicide and he was asked to pay 657,000 yuan (US$93,000) in compensation.

(With inputs from agencies)