Mother starves 5-year-old son to death until he weighs just 9.7kg, judge calls abuse ‘cold-blooded annihilation’A Hong Kong mother who abused and starved her five-year-old son to death has been sentenced to 22 years’ jail, with a judge describing her actions as “cold-blooded annihilation carried out with the patience of a torturer”. The court also heard that the boy had 129 injuries across his body, including bruises and marks consistent with prolonged abuse. Judge: ‘I cannot envisage anything worse’In sentencing, High Court judge Susana D’Almada Remedios described the case as “horrid, devastating, heart-breaking and tragic”. She said the mother had not acted in a moment of anger but had deliberately starved her son over a prolonged period. According to RTHK, two years of the child cruelty sentence will run consecutively, bringing her total jail term to 22 years.