Guru Who Pushed ‘Slapping Therapy’ To Cure Illness Convicted of Woman’s Death

A therapist who did nothing when their client died is now leaving for a long time. Over the weekend, Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a UK judge for the manslaughter of 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm. Carr-Gomm died days after she stopped taking her insulin at one of Xiao’s meetings, where she promoted what is known as “healing slap”.

UK judge found Xiao, 61, was charged with negligent homicide earlier this July for his role in Carr-Gomm’s death. Xiao allegedly did not help Carr-Gomm as her illness worsened, at one point telling some of her followers that she was experiencing a “disease”. Shockingly, Carr-Gomm is the second person to die from insulin resistance under Xiao’s watch – a controversial detail in recent speculation.

A Californian born in China, Xiao is the founder of what he calls his own The shirt is a kind of medicine. The main idea of ​​this medicine is that people can get rid of “toxic waste” from their bodies by slapping themselves in a certain direction, and often the skin is injured. Xiao and his followers (who called him “the master”) claim that this slap can cure a variety of diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism—a claim that other medical experts have said is completely baseless and unsupported by any evidence.

According to prosecutors, Carr-Gomm was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999 and was determined not to use insulin injections for his problems. At Xiao’s first meeting in Bulgaria, he reportedly stopped taking his medication and became ill until he started taking insulin again. But this experience did not stop him from praising Xiao in a testimonial video as a “messenger sent by God,” nor did it seem to worry Xiao much. At the beginning of the fatal escape in October 2016, which took place in England, Xiao is said to have praised Carr-Gomm when he announced that he had stopped taking insulin for other members. As he became very ill, then vomited and foamed at the mouth, Xiao allegedly “tried” to get him to the hospital, prosecutors said.

“You knew from the afternoon that Danielle Carr-Gomm had stopped taking her insulin,” said Justice Robert Bright at Xiao’s trial at Winchester Crown Court. and AP. “Besides, you showed him that you agree with this.”

Xiao had to be extradited to Australia to stand trial, where he was found guilty of murdering a 6-year-old child under similar circumstances. The boy’s parents had stopped giving him insulin while he was attending a Xiao conference in Sydney in April 2015. Unlike the recent case, the Australian court. determined that Xiao had specifically instructed the boy’s mother not to give him insulin, even if his health had improved.

“While we can’t bring our mother back, we believe this case shows the dangers of following unapproved medical treatments without proper research,” the Carr-Gomm family said in response to the decision.

Xiao’s total sentence in the UK will be 15 years, 10 of which must be in prison.