A man aged 40 from Ungheni district was sentenced to nine years in jail because he beat his wife to death. The sentence can be appealed to a higher court, IPN reports.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the man used violence against his wife for several times. The last quarrel between spouses occurred in September 2017, when the man kicked and punched his wife and left her to lie unconscious. The woman was taken to the hospital, but didn’t survive. She was 36.
Statistics show 857 cases of domestic violence were reported in 2017, as opposed to 1,693 cases in 2016.