A look at “Yue Yu alleged in Drano poisoning abused family” A man who says he caught his wife on a nanny cam pouring a “Drano-like” cleaner into his morning tea to try to kill him heaped abuse on him and the couple’s children daily before she was indicted on charges of poisoning and domestic abuse.
In a 2022 court declaration asking a judge in Southern California for custody of the children after the arrest of his wife, Yue “Emily” Yu, Jack Chen, 53, alleged years of abuse by the suspect and the suspect’s mother at their home in Irvine, California, an Orange County suburb, 45 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.
Yue Yu faces charges after allegedly poisoning her husband’s tea with a “Drano-like” liquid, prosecutors said. (Mugshot from Irvine Police Department; screenshot of her in the kitchen courtesy of Steven G. Hittelman of the Hittelman Family Law Group)Yue Yu alleged in Drano poisoning abused family: Court docs
Chen’s attorney, Steven Hittleman, called the allegations insidious.
“She wanted him to suffer,” he told Law&Crime. “This is just another form of domestic violence she used against him.”
