An Orange County physician charged with poisoning her husband with Drano now faces allegations in her upcoming divorce proceedings and legal case of attempting to teach her kids to lie about their father.
Yue “Emily” Yu was charged in 2022 with poisoning her husband, Jack Chen, who has filed for divorce and is searching for custody of their two kids. The subsequent courtroom date on the divorce proceedings is April 30, whereas the legal case is scheduled to return to courtroom in late Could.
Yu misplaced in-person visitation rights with their kids late final yr, after her daughter instructed a college therapist that she was afraid her mom would poison her as nicely and that Yu had coached her to say she wished to be together with her mom “24-7,” in response to a just lately revealed assertion by the therapist.
The daughter “appeared distressed and seemed tearful when she was explaining feeling conflicted about mendacity as a result of if she didn’t, ‘she would make her mother offended.’ I requested [her] why she was so afraid to make her mother offended. [She] responded: ‘As a result of what if she does what she did to my dad to me?’” in response to the assertion.
“‘Are you afraid that your mother would kill you?’,” the therapist requested.
The daughter, whom The Occasions is just not naming as a result of she is an alleged sufferer of kid abuse, replied, “Sure,” in response to the affidavit.
The courtroom paperwork had been reported on Monday by the Day by day Mail.
The filings are a part of the divorce and home violence proceedings between Yu and Chen, each of whom are docs in Irvine.
Chen grew to become suspicious when he began affected by abdomen ulcers and a swollen esophagus, and observed a “chemical style” in his morning scorching lemonade. Yu was arrested and charged with three counts of poisoning and one depend of corporal damage on a partner and launched on $30,000 bail.
Whereas Chen had already accused Yu in courtroom paperwork of bodily abusing their kids, the dialog with the therapist was the primary time both youngster was identified to have straight accused their mom of abuse.
The ten-year-old daughter stated that her mom would beat her with the leg of a chair and that her maternal grandmother would do the identical, chasing the youngsters round the home to hit them with it, in response to the assertion by therapist Patricia Ramsey.
Yu additionally coached the youngsters, telling them to lie about why the household had Drano in the home. She instructed them to say was as a result of there was an ant infestation and Chen had refused to get ant traps, in response to the assertion.
The teaching occurred throughout scheduled visits with displays, however Yu took steps to instruct the youngsters whereas the displays weren’t paying consideration, in response to the therapist’s assertion.
The allegations led to the decide within the case suspending Yu’s capacity to satisfy in particular person together with her youngsters.
Yu’s attorneys have argued that the allegations are made up and that the youngsters get pleasure from their time with Yu.
“That the youngsters get pleasure from their parenting time with their Mom, and even need further time, is fully at odds with Father’s present allegations of impropriety,” Yu’s lawyer Danielle Struwe wrote in courtroom papers.
