Parents Dump Her Body in Kitchen While Guests Eat
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on January 9 2017 Liang Zhao called Jackson Township emergency services to report that his five-year-old daughter Ashley was missing he told dispatchers that his daughter had been sleeping in the back of his family-owned restaurant and that he hadn’t seen her since 3 or 4 pm the father was quickly corrected by his wife who could be her in the background claiming to have seen Ashley as late as 5 PM Liang was concerned that maybe she had wandered out the back door please yes uh I need some help hey what’s going
on I I can’t find my daughter but in reality something far more Sinister had happened to his daughter Ashley Zhao was born on December 20th 2011 in Brooklyn New York to Liang Zhao and Ming Ming Chen she has an older sister Jolin whom they called JoJo her father Liang was a naturalized citizen originally from China but had been in the U.
S for 20 years much of that time was spent in New York and he considered the bronx’s hometown additionally he had a lot of family in Ohio Ashley’s mother Ming Ming said she paid somebody 68 thousand dollars to smuggle her into the U.S from China Bing Ming was formerly an elementary school teacher and in 2009 applied for Asylum due to religious persecution Ming Ming practiced falun gong which in a nutshell is a spiritual faith that incorporates active meditation and as Buddhist and Taos values she just told immigration that she’d flown to Mexico and that a
snakehead had helped her cross the border hidden a vehicle that had taken her to New York now for those underwear snakeheads or Chinese gangs that specialize in smuggling people into other countries by 2010 Mingming was working in New York at liang’s Sister’s restaurant which is how they met things move fast for the couple Liang and Mingming were married in March of 2010 and just a few months later in October JoJo was born in June of 2011 the couple opened angs in The Gander Mountain Plaza in North Canton Ohio which had previously been liang’s
father’s restaurant he decided to Rebrand and give it a fresh start in that December the couple traveled to New York where Ashley was born according to Liang when Mingming was pregnant with Ashley they knew they couldn’t run the restaurant with two kids he asked his mother to come from New York to help them but she refused instead she agreed to take Ashley and raise her in New York with Ashley now in her grandmother’s care the parents continue to run the restaurant and race JoJo angs was open six days a week with only Ming Ming and
Liang running the business when Ashley turned four she returned to Ohio to live with her parents according to locals they seemed like a nice family they always saw Ashley and JoJo in the restaurant coloring or playing on their iPads officers of the Jackson Township Police Department were dispatched there they met with Liang Zhao and his wife Mingming Chen JoJo also verified that she saw her sister sleeping when she arrived after school it was already after 9 pm and the officers questioned the parents as to why it took them so
long to call 9-1-1 now due to the fact that they had no other employees they said they simply did not have time to check on their daughter after a curse research of the restaurant the officers searched the other stores in the strip mall where angst was located then expanded their efforts to the wooded areas surrounding business the temperature outside dropped to negative six degrees Fahrenheit and 75 officers searched throughout the night with the assistance of dogs and drones authorities requested help from the Ohio
Bureau of Criminal investigations in the FBI Child Abduction rapid deployment the following morning a Statewide alert was sent out regarding Ashley roadblock was set up near angst in order to pass out missing Flyers to all the passing vehicles but unfortunately no one had seen the five-year-old girl girl it was as if she had vanished in thin air but soon you were a tent that 5 PM under 20 hours from when she was reported missing Ashley Zhao was found in her parents restaurant dead her father willingly LED investigators
to where he had hidden her body inside of a wall she had been stashed in Container full of salt and placed on top of the freezers Liang and Mingming were arrested and taken to the Stark County Sheriff’s Office to be interviewed according to liang’s confession when Ashley came back to live with them there were many issues he said she didn’t know her last name didn’t know if she was a boy or girl and wasn’t potty trained at four years old Ashley was still wearing diapers but this wasn’t everything liang’s list of complaints with his
daughter went on and on he said that she didn’t know how to stand properly he demonstrated for the detectives what Ashley would do in his mind to intentionally irritate his wife now according to Liang she would stand on the balls of her feet almost bouncing while holding her arms out and halfway bends she would hold her hands out in front of her body as if she was ready to play the piano you said that he would have to tell her to stand with her feet on the ground and her arms at her sides but she would always revert to that stance
according to Liang another huge issue was that his mother was constantly telling Ming Ming she wasn’t doing it right when it came to raising Ashley he said the police could check his phone records and see that he had very little contact with his family but suddenly once Ashley was home his mother aunt and grandmother were making daily calls to criticize mingming’s parenting skills before Liang explained what happened to Ashley he started off by telling investigators that his wife is a good woman and he wouldn’t have married her
if she wasn’t he further Justified this by saying how Mingming would never hurt their older daughter JoJo during the interview Liang offered to take a polygraph test but police didn’t feel this to be necessary given Liang was fully willing to incriminate himself Liang stated that only one month after Ashley returned Bing Ming started hurting her if Ashley didn’t behave Mingming would twist her arm or hit her he said he thought about calling someone but Ashley had already had so many bruises that he simply couldn’t
he repeatedly stated that he was afraid of losing Jojo and losing what they had worked so hard to build over the last six years one thing that really angered Ming Ming was when Ashley made a mess of her diaper now this wasn’t a problem in itself but Ashley would take it off so that all of the contents would spill out on the floor and instead of trying to get to the root of the problem she would instead take out all of her anger on the little girl Liang stated that on the morning of the ninth he took JoJo to school but when he returned home at
about 9 15 am he saw that his wife was hurting Ashley for soiling her diaper he witnessed Ming Ming slammed Ashley’s head down hard on the carpeted living room floor twice allegedly Ashley was a little dazed but in his words seemed okay but unfortunately she was not little girl started making a gasping sound at first and then made what sound like a snore then she started to throw up Liang and Mingming took her to the bathroom where she continued to be sick there they rinsed her off in the tub and they were about to dress her when they
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noticed a green substance coming out of her mouth after rinsing her off again and finally dressing her Liang realized that Ashley’s heart had stopped he started CPR doing breaths and chest compressions for what he estimated to be about 15 to 30 minutes but he was not able to revive her by 10 AM Liang and Mingming showed up at the restaurant with a lifeless Ashley in tow and then they proceeded to stash her body away the investigators asked Liang if either of them considered calling the police the angry iterated that they were
concerned because Ashley had so many bruises on her body that they were afraid of losing JoJo he admitted to hatching a plan to call 9-1-1 to take the fall for Ashley’s death however Mingming pointed out the police would notice all of the bruises and would want to know why her mother hadn’t done anything about it instead they put her into her car seat and brought her to engs there they put her in the bed in the back where she normally took naps he explained to the police that they wanted JoJo to see Ashley sleeping when she got
back from school they didn’t want to have JoJo lie to the police at 6 PM while Jojo and Ming Ming were at the front of the restaurant Yen carried her body up a ladder and stashed her above the freezer the panel above the freezer was always off and they used it for storage after placing her body in a restaurant Container full of salts Liang stored his daughter away like clutter allegedly she was laying close to where their wedding photos were stored Liang stated several times in his interview that he was sorry
that they wasted everyone’s time he said they had no idea so many people would help to look for Ashley he and Mingming thought that they would simply report her missing and then they would just be looked at as one of those families that had a missing kid this is why Liang LED investigators to Ashley’s body he felt guilty now during this point in the interview Liang kept referring to his daughter as it he was asked what they plan to do with Ashley’s body he stated that they weren’t sure they had gone over three methods but
none of them seemed to work the first was to put Ashley in the ocean but he said the tide would wash her back ashore the second was to bury her but he reasoned that wild animals could dick her offer that people would find her and the third was to burn her they’d have to do it under the cover of night in a big fire was likely to be seen Liang added that he realized there was something wrong with his wife and that she needed help he said that he was trying to get a relative to take care of Ashley he wanted Ming Ming’s mom to take
her but she was already taking care of mingling’s brother’s kids at that time however as soon as the kids went back to her brother Ashley was going to stay with her in China but fortunately Ashley never made it the end of liang’s interview he asked if they knew what would happen to his wife he suggested that she needed help instead of normal prison he also asked about Jojo and requested that she be placed in the care of Social Services he did not want his family to have custody of her at all Ming Ming was interviewed as well she
was completely emotionless and did not have much to say she admitted to killing Ashley and went on to state that she used her hands to hit her you know the bad things made me angry and I can’t control myself when the officers asked why she wasn’t crying over what she had done to her daughter she stated that she didn’t have any Waters or tears left your daughter’s dead I just don’t understand I I know that you’re not crying you said I don’t have nothing after you told me you don’t have no tears left you don’t have nothing left Ming your daughter’s
dead when pressed further she stated I only have two hands I’m not Four Hands girl I’m two hands even though Mingming killed Ashley Liang covered up his daughter’s death he also allowed his wife to batter his little girl so badly that in his words she had so many bruises that he couldn’t call it in anymore now don’t forget that the couple cooked and served food all while their dead daughter was lying just a few feet away in the back room and then they stashed her body above the freezer while they served the dinner crowd we should
also note that in several sources mingming’s lawyer claimed that Liang harmed both his wife and his daughters these are only allegations as no reports were filed and it was never brought up in court on January 11 2017 Liang and Mingming were arrested Ming Ming was charged with homicide endangering the welfare of a minor tampering with evidence obstruction of justice and gross abuse of a corpse Liang received the same charges however there are conflicting sources that say he was charged with complicity to commit
homicide due to the fact that they were both considered a flight risk their bail was set to 5 million dollars each on January 12 2017 the state of Ohio Department of Job and Family Services was granted custody of Jojo she has a guardian ad litem who agreed to stay with her until she’s 18 years old on September 11 2017 Liang Zhao signed a plea deal where he agreed to plead guilty and provide testimony against his wife he was sentenced to 12 years in prison on January 10 2018.
on December 29 2017 Ming Ming Chen also signed a plea deal she pled guilty on all counts and her homicide charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter she was sentenced to 22 years in prison as Mingming was never granted Asylum she will be deported to China after she finishes her sentence so what do you think of these seemingly light sentences for the death of a young girl do you think that Liang should have received the same sentence as his wife additionally do you think it was right for mingming’s homicide charge to be
reduced to involuntary manslaughter let us know what you think in the comments down below
