2YR Chinese girl ruthlessly run over twice and pedestrians do nothing

[MKR&*42]

That is just particularly how a male thinks. Definitely not how an inexperienced mother thinks.
Of course not. The passerby are to be blamed.

No need to get sexist... Enlighten me, how does an inexperienced mother think? I've just had a baby so I'll let it slide to the back of my mind. It wasn't the passers by fault that the baby was run over, yes they should have helped but ultimately it's the mother's fault for not paying attention and protecting her baby. This is a one-off story, it's not everyday inexperienced mothers lose their baby.

To be honest, everyone in that clip deserved the blame;

1) The mother - for not keeping the child in her sight.
2) The driver - for not even helping the child, and driving over her again :S
3) The person who dragged the child to the side of the road... as if she was some obstacle
4) Every passerby who didn't stop and do something.

If that was the mother at the end who did help the child, then the mother isn't completely useless and obviously not sexist.

It's unfair to pin the blame the one person ;/

---------- Post added 20-10-2011 at 11:42 AM ----------

Ugh sickening. I really cant comprehend something like this.

The sad thing is we are all born blank canvases, someone/something makes these people think this is acceptable

I hope that if the girl did die, that she is in a much better place.

If only we could rid the world of rubbish and start a fresh, imagine a world full of people like this

That vid, Omg

Restored my faith in humanity..shows it isn't full of complete *****

Amazing.

[scottish]

It was confirmed this morning that she died in the early hours (friday)

BEIJING — A 2-year-old girl who was run over by two vehicles and left lying in the street ignored by bystanders died early Friday morning in a Guangdong hospital, Chinese media reported. She had been in a coma since the incident one week ago.

The plight of the little girl, identified as Xiao Yueyue, ignited an intense round of public soul-searching here on why so many people — 18, according to surveillance video of the scene — could pass by an injured, bleeding toddler in the road without offering to help. Some of the passersby had to steer their motorcycles around her body.

(AP) - A nurse took care of a 2-year-old Yueyue in a hospital in Guangzhou, China, before she died. The incident, in which she was struck twice by vehicles and then ignored by passersby, is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn’t help the child.

The girl was finally pulled to the side of the road by a old woman who was scavenging through garbage.

In Internet chat rooms and newspaper opinion pages, many Chinese — from academics to ordinary citizens — began questions whether in the quest to get rich, China had lost its moral compass.

Some blamed a past series of incidents in which people who stopped to help elderly strangers who had fallen found themselves accused of wrongdoing and ordered to pay compensation. Others pointed to a pattern of corruption and sense of impunity by top Communist Party and government officials that has made the general population more uncaring and self-centered.

The case of the 2-year-old girl prompted local government authorities in Guangdong province to consider whether a law is needed to protect “Good Samaritans” who offer assistance to those in need. The China Daily newspaper reported the Guangdong Communist Party’s legislative affairs committee this week posted a notice on its “weibo” microblogging site asking for public advice on shaping a new law.

“Please stop the coldness,” the posting said. “Guangdong province is going to hold a discussion to criticize the behavior of leaving people in mortal danger out of indifference, and to advocate the spirit of lending a hand to those in need of help.” One newspaper said the province was considering establishing a reward, the equivalent of $78,000, for people who risk their lives to save others.

On Friday, the government-controlled media began a counter-offensive against the bad publicity from the story of Yueyue, with major papers running stories about kind-hearted bystanders who have helped save people from traffic accidents. One case involved a 20-month-old boy named Xiaojie who was hit by a car but quickly pulled to safety by “kind-hearted” bystanders — coincidentally, perhaps, in Foshan, the same city where Yueyue was hit and left to die. Xiaojie suffered only a broken leg, media reported.

“Rescues show caring nature of passers-by,” was the headline on the story in Friday’s China Daily newspaper. The Global Times headline on the same story was: “Foshan has another near miss with child.”

[MKR&*42]

The girl was finally pulled to the side of the road by a old woman who was scavenging through garbage.

Wow.. like seriously, a person who was looking through garbage was the only person to help her? :S :S :S

Such a shame that the toddler died R.I.P

Knowing the Chinese government, this is immediately going to blocked on their internet system...

[DPS]

Yes it was posted on the BBC website dismorning, that she was in a coma but has died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15398332

[Jordy]

The more you look into it, the reasons behind the moral-less people in this part of China stack up. There's many high profile cases in China of the good Samaritans/Helpers being forced to pay all the medical bills and sometimes even accused of the crime. It seems the only reason the woman helped the baby was because she was incredibly poor and had nothing to lose.

Then of course the drivers would be struck with fines of six figure sums which would ruin them and their families financially. It's also likely they'd end up in harsh prisons for many years.

The place it happened is an industrial city where everyone is just out for themselves to make a load of money quickly in the export market. Their morals are completely built-up on earning money, not helping others. Quite sickening really but you can definitely see why people walked past and didn't help, blame their crazy government.

[Andii]

the main thing that hits me is the fact this wasn't even part of chinas biggest news

[GommeInc]

the main thing that hits me is the fact this wasn't even part of chinas biggest news

It wouldn't be, they have no reason to care. The logic is that the child should not of been wandering around so deserves to be run over - or at least to blame entirely for it.

It's a shame really, the entirety of China is not the same as the China we've learnt of from this. In many cases they're family orientated and have a good grasp of their morals, but this area is a vile area based purely on money. Think of it as China going capitalist, that money is of great importance.

[MKR&*42]

the main thing that hits me is the fact this wasn't even part of chinas biggest news

Even thought it wasn't biggest news - it's still gone around xL

I'm also shocked that they showed that video on the news :S , That's a bit extreme, showing people a child that's being ran over.

[Andii]

agreed. . . i thought the video was awful to watch even tho it was online and not to hard to find. . but it really should not have been put and shown on the tv =/ . . . . i was really surprised at that tbh

[GommeInc]

agreed. . . i thought the video was awful to watch even tho it was online and not to hard to find. . but it really should not have been put and shown on the tv =/ . . . . i was really surprised at that tbh

That's odd for the news :/ Usually when they show awful videos like this they stop the video just before it gets gory. So I imagine for this little girl, just before she is hit (I haven't seen the video but assume she gets hit by a van coming from behind the camera).