{
  "id": 172843,
  "title": "‘Savage abuse’: Hong Kong mother gets 22 years for starving boy, 5, to death",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/savage-abuse-hong-kong-mother-gets-22-years-for-starving-boy-5-to",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-05T11:13:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3363069/savage-abuse-hong-kong-mother-gets-22-years-starving-boy-5-death"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Hong Kong mother who abused and starved her five-year-old son to death was sentenced to 22 years in prison, with the judge condemning a crime that exposed a “savage nature utterly devoid of the empathy inherent to motherhood”. Madam Justice Susana D’Almada Remedios on Wednesday said she had to impose the heavy sentence on the 37-year-old mother, whom she said had committed the worst form of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}