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6.09.2009

shame, family and tragedy

This is a crazy, tragic Boston Globe story on Chi-Xue-fang, the "psychologically fragile" Chinese immigrant mother who is accused of killing one of her two daughters, along with her 7-month old fetus, and nearly herself in a bloody rampage last April in Quincy, and the desperate family circumstances -- and shame -- that might have driven her to such horrible acts: A mother's journey from hope to horror.