The maniac charged with bludgeoning his elderly mom to death in Chinatown just before Christmas – possibly with a skateboard – had been placed in a drug program that allowed him to shave off almost 90% of his prison sentence despite multiple prior arrests and schizophrenia, The Post has learned.
China-born Wei Hou was sentenced to two years in state prison on felony narcotics charges in June 2025 — but instead was sent to a 90-day drug treatment program at Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility in upstate Chautauqua County, officials said.
If he had been made to complete his full sentence, Hou, 41, would have been behind bars until 2027.
He finished the drug program on Oct. 14 and was released to parole, records show. Two months later, he killed his mother, Zhu Hou, 76, in her Monroe Street apartment, authorities said…