Guru who pushed ‘slap therapy’ to cure disease convicted in woman’s death

An alternative medicine practitioner who has done little since his client died is now long gone Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a UK judge for the manslaughter of 71-year-old Daniel Carr-Gom. Gom died a few days after he stopped taking his insulin during one of Xiao’s seminars where he preached something known as “slap therapy”.

UK Jury has been found Xiao, 61, pleaded guilty to gross negligence manslaughter for his role in Kar-Gom’s death earlier this July.Xiao reportedly did little to help Kar-Gom as her condition deteriorated, at one point in her life telling followers he was experiencing a “treatment crisis.” Notably, Kar-Gom is the second person to die from not taking insulin when was under Xiao’s control, an important detail in the argument for this latest conviction.

Xiao, a California native born in China, was what he called it A t-shirt is a kind of therapy. The basic tenet of the therapy is that people can purge “toxic waste” from their bodies by slapping themselves into certain positions, often to the point that the person’s skin turns blue, Xiao and his associates (who called him “the master”) claimed , that this slap can cure many diseases, including infections, Alzheimer’s disease and autism;

According to prosecutors, Kar-Gom was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999 and was desperate to avoid insulin injections for the condition.He reportedly stopped taking his medication during Xiao’s previous seminar in Bulgaria and became ill is to the point where he started taking insulin again But that experience didn’t stop him from praising Xiao in the video as “A messenger from God,” and it didn’t seem to bother Hsiao. At the start of the fateful retreat in England in October 2016, Hsiao reportedly congratulated Kar-Gom when he announced the discontinuation of insulin to the other members , ended up vomiting and foaming at the mouth, Xiao reportedly only “remarkable effort” used to get her medical attention, prosecutors said.

“You were aware of the fact that Daniel Carr-Gomm had stopped taking his insulin in the late afternoon of the first day,” Judge Robert Bright said during Hsiao’s sentencing at Winchester Crown Court. AP. “Besides, you’ve made it clear to him that you support it.”

Xiao was to be extradited for trial from Australia, where he was previously convicted of manslaughter in the death of a 6-year-old boy in similar circumstances. The boy’s parents stopped giving him insulin while attending one of Xiao’s seminars in Sydney in April 2015. Court of Australia determined that Xiao directly instructed the boy’s mother not to give him insulin, even as her health deteriorated.

“While we can’t bring our mother back, we hope this case at least highlights the dangers of pursuing unregulated alternative therapies without proper research,” Kar-Gomm’s family said in response to the verdict.

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