2 year old girl run over twice in China

[smile72]

On the treadmill of life, there are no pause buttons. And in China, where everything moves at top speed and some 1.3 billion people are scrambling to make good in double-quick time, many things get lost in the rush of everyday life.

The very essence of humanity, for instance.

A two-year-old girl in southern China, who has been declared ‘brain-dead’ after being run over – twice – and lay bleeding on the roadside while pedestrians and motorists pointedly ignored her, is holding up a mirror to Chinese society – and forcing them to reflect on some troubling, fundamental questions.

Such as, for instance, whether in their manic scramble to get ahead, their moral compass has perhaps become unhinged.

The girl, Wang Yue, had strayed onto a street in Foshan in southern China last week when she was knocked down by a slow-moving minivan. The scene immediately afterwards, caught on surveillance-camera footage, is shocking in the extreme.

It shows the driver stop the vehicle after the front right wheel runs over her: but after assessing the damage, he drives away, this time running the hind wheel over her – deliberately.

As the girl lay bleeding on the street, no one offers her any assistance. Nearly 20 passersby and motorists pointedly ignore her: in one instance, a woman walking by with a child crosses the street to avoid the limp frame lying by the side.

Shockingly, a second vehicle then runs over Wang, although it appears that this time the driver was unaware of the girl lying there.

Minutes later, a 59-year-old scrap recycler comes upon the child, and pulls her to the side of the road, but when she sought help from nearby shopowners, she was told to mind her own business.

(The entire surveillance camera footage can be viewed below. But be warned: it makes for very grisly viewing, and can be severely traumatizing.)

Wang is now battling for her life in a hospital in Guangzhou, but she’s been declared brain-dead and her chances of survival are rated very slim.
After the footage was aired on Chinese and international news channels, the entire grim episode has triggered an intense outpouring of outrage and angst over what many see as the wholesale collapse of ethical and moral standards in fast-changing China.

The minivan driver who knocked Wang down, and then ran over her deliberately, has since surrendered to the police, but offered a curious explanation for his action. He said he had been talking on his mobile phone when he hit the girl, but decided to run her over because it would have cost him less to pay off a dead girl’s parents than to pay for her hospital expenses.

“If she had died, I would have been required to pay only about 20,000 yuan (about Rs 1.5 lakh) in compensation, but if she were injured, it would cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan in hospital expenses,” he said.

The fact that passersby did not help Wang has led many commentators in China to wonder if Chinese citizens were particularly afflicted by the “bystander effect” – a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals don’t offer help to victims even in emergency situations.

Indicatively, there have been several recent incidents in China where bystanders have refused to step in with offers of help in emergency situations. In one particularly troubling incident in April, a 23-year-old Chinese student stabbed his mother nine times at the Shanghai international airport: none of the Chinese bystanders stepped up to help the mother as she lay bleeding. It was left to a foreigner to offer her aid.

In another famous instance from 2006, a man who rushed to help an elderly woman who fell in Nanjing in eastern China was later sued by the woman, who claimed he had pushed her down. The man, Peng Yu, had to pay 45,000 yuan (about Rs 3 lakh) in compensation; the flawed case has led to what’s called the Peng Yu effect – where Good Samaritans are hesitant to help for fear of being entrapped and slapped with legal liability.

There are other instances of elderly Chinese citizens who died on the roadside without any help from passersby worried about the legal consequences of offering to help. Such episodes have triggered a debate over the need for a Good Samaritan law in China.

Some commentators have wondered if the erosion of religious faith in the Communist country is at the heart of civic heartlessness. But at least one “devoute atheist” who lives in China believes that it is the lack of belief in hell that is to blame.

Yet, according to some psychologists, the problem of callousness isn’t unique to China. “It’s a problem within the Human Race,” psychologist Jeremy Gaies told ABC News. “Many of the people in the China situation who passed this girl are probably good compassionate people, but something changes human behavior when we are in these particular dynamics,” Gaies explained.

“It has something to do with what we call a diffusion of responsibility. The more people who are available, the less responsibility each individual seems to take for providing help to an individual in distress,” said Gaies.

Such theoretical psychological constructs are of course little consolation to little Wang, or her shattered parents, as she battles for her life. Yet, the two-year-old girl who has caused a country of 1.3 billion people to pause and reset their moral compass has in a larger sense attained immortality.

Source: First Post
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My god. China's culture toward people is disgusting.

 

[Thesolcity]

I saw this on....Reddit first I think? I've seen it like 12 times since then.

 

[mori123]

At Least the guy did not back up. to make sure he finished the job.

And while this is Horrible and grisly Anyone else wonder why theres not one iota of Info about why a 2 yearold child was walking in a street in China? what about the parents in this seems like some severe neglect to me

 

[Raiser]

I've read about this a few times as well. Absolutely disgusting and disturbing.

Unless I've missed it somewhere- where in the world were the child's mother or father during this? And did they just abandon her after she got hit?

By the way, you repeated this part in your quote:

Spoiler

A two-year-old girl in southern China, who has been declared ‘brain-dead’ after being run over – twice – and lay bleeding on the roadside while pedestrians and motorists pointedly ignored her, is holding up a mirror to Chinese society – and forcing them to reflect on some troubling, fundamental questions.
Such as, for instance, whether in their manic scramble to get ahead, their moral compass has perhaps become unhinged.
The girl, Wang Yue, had strayed onto a street in Foshan in southern China last week when she was knocked down by a slow-moving minivan. The scene immediately afterwards, caught on surveillance-camera footage, is shocking in the extreme.
It shows the driver stop the vehicle after the front right wheel runs over her: but after assessing the damage, he drives away, this time running the hind wheel over her – deliberately.
As the girl lay bleeding on the street, no one offers her any assistance. Nearly 20 passersby and motorists pointedly ignore her: in one instance, a woman walking by with a child crosses the street to avoid the limp frame lying by the side.
Shockingly, a second vehicle then runs over Wang, although it appears that this time the driver was unaware of the girl lying there.
Minutes later, a 59-year-old scrap recycler comes upon the child, and pulls her to the side of the road, but when she sought help from nearby shopowners, she was told to mind her own business.

 

[Sicklyboy]

I think I heard somewhere that the child's mother was near by, but she wasn't paying attention. Child wandered off, walked into road, got hit, the scrap worker pulled her to the sidewalk and then the mother realized the girl was gone and now injured.

Though I may very well be wrong.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

WOW I am speechless.

 

[Fluto]

so many posts deleted?
also - terrible news

 

[ComplicatioN]

Utterly disgusting. Even if the bystanders were under the effects of the 'Bystander Effect', it is simply common sense to go to the aid of a young child lying in pain on the street. I guess those who have had it rough (The Saviour) are the ones who use their brains. As for the excuse that the minivan driver made, ridiculous.

 

[Skelletonike]

I saw the video for that on 4chan around two days ago... That thing was like... Horrible... I can deal with terrorrism and torture and all that, but animals and kids, it's just not right... I haven't felt like this since I saw that video of the sicko woman that three the puppies into the river like it was a game... I mean, what's wrong with those people? She was a baby, that guy should've stopped the car immedialy, I can understand hitting her for the first time, sure, it was an accident, but running over her even after knowing she was under the truck? I saw the video and there were several other people passing by and ignoring her like trash, there were even some other cars that just ignored it and still ran over her... I'm surprised at how she managed to stay alive... It's things like this that makes one person think about how rotten the world is becomming...
Btw, has anyone that saw the video, have any idea of what that guy talking to the camera (I guess it's some sort of news on tv or something) is saying? And was the frentic woman in the end of the video the girls mother?

Edit: I just noticed that in that article, there's a quote of psychologics, saying that it's the people that passed by were probably good people, how can that be? I don't care what the mind does and what it doesn't, I do know however that compassion and morality exist for all.

 

[Evo.lve]

This is absolutely disgusting...

I'm speechless...

 

[ShakeBunny]

Reading this, I'm showered with a plethora of emotion, but one seems to trump the rest.

Shame.

When a person, let alone a two year old little girl, is laying in the street fighting to stay alive, you drop what you're doing and fucking help.

I have to admit I'm not strong enough to watch the video.

 

[Raiser]

Another recent article on this unfortunate event explains that, as of yet, the girl's parents have not come to see her in the hospital (as reported by her grandfather) because "the strain is too great for them".

"She had an emergency operation this morning at 9am and the doctors haven't told us anything since then," her grandfather, who gave his name only as Mr Wang, told The Telegraph.

He added that the girl's parents – named only as Mr Wang and Ms Qu – had not to come down to the hospital on Wednesday. "The strain is too great for them. We're hoping they can arrange a private visit later," the elder Mr Wang said.

And a response from the mother:

"I won't judge them. Let them make their own judgment," Yueyue's mother told the China Daily newspaper. "If they are married and have children, they will know. But I bear no grudge and refuse to be disappointed by society. Many kind people have come to help."

She added that despite the bleak outlook, she was still hoping for a miracle for her daughter who slipped out of the house when her seven-year-old brother went out to play.

"I didn't care for my child very well, and it's my fault," Mrs Qu said, "But Yue Yue can't leave her mother and her mom won't leave her."

More included here.

My heart and thoughts are with this girl.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Yeah, I seen this earlier. This is sickening.

Bystander effect at its worst.

 

[Celice]

I really suggest people not read the article. It's a bit iffy in some places. Rather, go watch the video yourself. You can find it on pretty much any raw upload site, including LiveLeak.

You'll get the exact reaction you need. You'll also get the full gravity of what happened.

It looks like the second van paralyzed her. She was trying to move before that, but after, she stops, and when the woman tries to move her, she's completely limp and falls over when sat up. She wasn't very mobile before the second van, however. She was also bleeding for quite some time. About 19 people passed, on foot and in vehicles, directly by her (two on her) before the lady with the bags decided to move her out of the street. A separate woman can to pick up the child.

 

[Pyrate02]

*Some* Chinese have no regard for human life. They poison their environment and their own food supply for the sake of profits. It's all about money to them. They also grossly mistreat animals. There is no way in hell I would ever visit China.

 

[Moose13]

This, seriously, is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen. I can't fathom how many people walked by, practically stepping over the limp body of a child, to get down the street. I usually don't get emotional over stuff like this. This one really affected me. I just cant understand how the human race is regressing. How could no one stop and try to help. HOW?
I may be an emotional wreck for the rest of the day...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

This, seriously, is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen. I can't fathom how many people walked by, practically stepping over the limp body of a child, to get down the street. I usually don't get emotional over stuff like this. This one really affected me. I just cant understand how the human race is regressing. How could no one stop and try to help. HOW?
I may be an emotional wreck for the rest of the day...

How is the entire world at fault when it was the fault of one Chinese community?

 

[Schizoanalysis]

This, seriously, is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen. I can't fathom how many people walked by, practically stepping over the limp body of a child, to get down the street. I usually don't get emotional over stuff like this. This one really affected me. I just cant understand how the human race is regressing. How could no one stop and try to help. HOW?
I may be an emotional wreck for the rest of the day...

How is the entire world at fault when it was the fault of one Chinese community?

Welcome to Capitalism.

This doesn't surprise me. And this is not a comment about China. I lived in China for over 6 months, but the greatest cruelty I saw elsewhere. All for money, too.

 

[Kioku]

This, seriously, is one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen. I can't fathom how many people walked by, practically stepping over the limp body of a child, to get down the street. I usually don't get emotional over stuff like this. This one really affected me. I just cant understand how the human race is regressing. How could no one stop and try to help. HOW?
I may be an emotional wreck for the rest of the day...

How is the entire world at fault when it was the fault of one Chinese community?

Heh.. Even with the fault on ONE community, that doesn't exactly excuse how the rest of world is taking certain things at the moment... Either I misread what he said, or you did. Either way... It's plausible.

 

[nando]

wow, that's awful.