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Chinese toddler who was ignored by 18 passersby and left in the street after she was run over twice is now brain dead, doctors said Wednesday.
Two-year-old Yue Yue in intensive care. (Image via Weibo.) The state-run paper China Daily, however, is still confidently reporting that Yue Yue is fine. Her “blood pressure and heart beat shows signs of stability,” their most recent story reads.
Is it possible that China’s censors are already at work? Yue Yue’s story certainly does not look good for the government.
Instead, the seven excruciatingly long minutes in which 18 people decide not to help a bleeding two-year-old girl lying in the road make China look like anything but the “harmonious society” President Hu Jintao has envisioned.
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Instead, Yue Yue is now “in a deep coma and clinically brain dead,” according to doctors quoted by the news agency Xinhua. Yue Yue’s parents are facing the decision about whether to turn off the life support machine that is keeping her alive