By Madina Toure
A Flushing man pleaded guilty to brutally assaulting his elderly stepmother in September 2013, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced last week.
The man, Shun Wang, 33, who lives on Northern Boulevard, admitted attacking his 89-year-old stepmother, who was so severely injured that she was blinded in her right eye and has only blurry vision in her left eye.
Wang will be sentenced to nine years in prison April 10, according to Brown.
“The defendant has admitted to viciously beating his 87-year-old stepmother,” Brown said. “The blows to the victim’s face have left her without the ability to see in one eye and very little sight in the other.”
Wang and his father, Liquun Wang, were arguing when Wang started to punch his stepmother, Zhao Ying Xiu, repeatedly about the face, according to the criminal complaint filed by the Queens DA’s office.
Xiu suffered swelling and substantial pain to both of her eyes as well as bleeding to her right eye, according to the complaint.
An opthamologist at an area hospital said Xiu suffered a dislocated lens in her right eye and lost sight in her right eye as well, the complaint said.
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