A Taiwanese appeals court upheld an eight-and-a-half-year prison term for a licensed babysitter who beat a baby boy to death, a case families have compared to the Kaikai child abuse scandal.

• The High Court rejected the appeal and kept the original sentence from the Taoyuan District Court.
• The boy, six months old, was in the woman's care in Longtan for four months before he died.
• She hit him in the head one morning in October 2019, then waited instead of calling an ambulance — she told the father to come take his son to hospital himself.
• Doctors found a fractured skull, bleeding and brain swelling; the baby died after a month of treatment.
• She had struck the child in the face four other times over two months, and denied everything, blaming falls and cold medicine.

Outlook: The sentence stands unless she takes the case to Taiwan's Supreme Court, and the parents have still received no compensation.