An alternative healer who advocated “slap therapy” to treat a variety of illnesses was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking her insulin during a workshop. Ta.
Hongqi Hsiao, 61, was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter for failing to provide medical treatment to Daniel Kergom as he was screaming in pain and foaming at the mouth on the fourth day of the workshop in October 2016. received.
Hsiao, of Cloudbreak, Calif., promoted Paida-Razine therapy, in which patients repeatedly tap themselves to flush “toxic waste” from their bodies. The technique has roots in Chinese medicine, but critics say it has no scientific basis and often leaves patients with bruising, bleeding, or worse.
Kergom was one of two of Xiao’s patients who died.
He had been extradited from Australia and found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a six-year-old boy whose parents stopped taking his insulin medication after attending a workshop in Sydney.
“I find you dangerous even though you do not share the characteristics of most other dangerous offenders,” Judge Robert Bright said during sentencing at Winchester Crown Court.
“You knew from late on the first afternoon that Mr. Daniel Kergom had stopped taking his insulin,” the judge said. “Plus, you made it clear to her that you support this.”
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Mr Bright said Mr Hsiao only made “performative efforts” to get Mr Ka Gum to take insulin after it was too late, even though he continued to promote Pada Radin inside the prison. He said he showed no remorse at all.
Kergom was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999 and was desperately looking for a treatment that didn’t involve injecting herself with needles, her son Matthew said.
“She has always maintained a healthy lifestyle and was adamant that nothing could stop her from living a fulfilling life,” Matthew said, according to the BBC.
She had sought alternative treatments and had attended a previous workshop with Mr Hsiao in Bulgaria several months before her death, during which she also became seriously ill after stopping her medication.
But she recorded a video testimony, calling Hsiao a “messenger sent from God” who is “starting a revolution to put power back into the hands of the people, heal themselves, and change the entire medical system.” .
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The court heard that Hsiao told Ms Kergom “well done” after telling participants she had stopped taking insulin for the week-long retreat, the BBC reported.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said that by the third day, Mr Kergom was “vomiting, tired and weak, and by the evening was groaning in pain and unable to answer questions”.
If a chef wants to call an ambulance, he says he’ll call someone with experience in holistic healing.
“Those who accepted and accepted the defendant’s teachings misinterpreted Mrs Carr Gomme’s condition as a crisis of healing,” Mr Atkinson said.
Sentencing Hsiao on Friday, Bright said: “When you found out she had stopped taking her insulin, you congratulated her. “Even though he knew that he would likely die if he did not administer the drug, he failed to call emergency medical services,” he said. I think you will continue to practice it, but you run the risk of actively or implicitly encouraging your followers to reduce their medication.
