Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 09 May, 2015, 11:41am
UPDATED : Saturday, 09 May, 2015, 11:41am
The boy's attacker was reportedly schizophrenic.
Toddler attacked by schizophrenic man
SHAANXI - Video footage of a two-year-old boy being beaten and stomped on the head by man whom police say is schizophrenic has gone viral on the internet, according to a newspaper report.
Police in Luochuan county have detained the man, the Beijing Youth Daily reports. The video shocked internet users, but also prompted criticism of the care and oversight the man was receiving from the medical authorities in the area.
The short clip shows the toddler sweeping the ground outside a restaurant when the man walks towards him, knocks him down and stamps on his head 13 times, the report says.
The man then hits the boy's head 11 times with the broom and eight times with a dustpan until customers in the restaurant rush outside.
The customers said the boy was unconscious when they managed to stop the beating. The child was treated in hospital for a fractured skull and is said to be in a stable condition, according to the report.
The police said the 29-year-old man had been diagnosed at a local psychiatric hospital as schizophrenic, but was receiving treatment at home.
The hospital said the man seemed to be recovering when they last visited him in March.
The hospital said most families preferred to take care of patients at home and medical staff would visit people with severe mental illnesses four times a year to make sure they were stable. Many internet users accused the hospital of negligence.
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Girl, 12, dies after drinking pesticide
SICHUAN - A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison, West China City Daily reports.
The grandmother is in stable condition after emergency treatment. She told the newspaper the girl asked her to help a classmate buy a bottle of pesticide, and gave her a bowl of water that smelled slightly pungent when she returned from the fields the next day.
The girl was living at home with her grandmother while her parents laboured as migrant workers in Beijing.
They could only manage to return home once a year during the Lunar New Year holidays. The police are investigating.
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An initial search did not find the drugs on the train passenger.
Train passenger hid heroin in foreskin
BEIJING - Railway police revealed on Thursday they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin on a train from the capital to Lhasa in Tibet , The Mirror reports.
The police found the man acting suspiciously during a routine patrol on the train and asked him to take a urine test, which yielded a positive result for morphine. But the police did not find any drugs in his clothes or baggage.
The man later confessed to having illegal drugs on him and took out a plastic bag from under his foreskin.
The police found a tenth of a gram of heroin in the bag, according to the report.
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Principal suspended over classroom bully
ANHUI - The principal of a primary school was suspended after it was revealed that a class monitor forced pupils to eat and drink faeces and urine if they did not give him money and snacks, according to a news website.
The bullying came to light after a family discovered that their son had stolen several thousand yuan from their home and had been forced to give the cash to the bully, the website Anhuinews.com reports.
The victim's family called the parents of other pupils and found many in the class had suffered attacks.
A teacher at the school in Huaiyuan county had asked the class monitor to help check children's homework and he had abused his power to extort money from pupils, the report says. The area's education bureau is investigating the case, the report says.
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Divorce on the menu after wedding feast row
HUBEI - A couple's big day descended into violence and a call for a divorce - all over what to do with leftover food, media in Shiyan report.
The bride and groom started arguing after their wedding banquet when the groom asked the staff to pack up the remaining food, according to the Shiyan Evening News.
The request upset the bride, and she began to berate him. The groom felt humiliated and beat her in the street, which upset the bride's mother so much that she had to be admitted to hospital for treatment.
When the unhappy couple finally arrived home, the woman called the police. Officers detained the man, and the bride has vowed to seek a divorce.
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The unexploded ordnance may have been from the Red Army.
Village dig uncovers war-era munitions
HENAN - Villagers in Xin county have found hundreds of unexploded ordnance while rebuilding their homes, Chinanews.com reports.
An excavator was removing earth in the village when it uncovered what looked like shells. The villagers called the police, who blocked off the area.
A total of 137 shells and 147 grenades were found after a six-hour search. Staff from the local heritage preservation authority said Red Army troops and guerilla soldiers were based in the area during the second Sino-Japanese war and the civil war.
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Teen with heart disease dies after friend's party
ZHEJIANG - A teenager with congenital heart disease who attended school against the advice of his doctor collapsed while talking to his classmates and died, the Qianjiang Evening News reports.
The 14-year-old was diagnosed at birth with dilated cardiomyopathy, a chronic heart disease that causes the heart to become enlarged and not pump blood efficiently.
The teen's doctor repeatedly suggested he quit school to wait for a heart transplant. He caught a cold after attending a classmate's birthday party and instead of staying at home, he returned to class the next day, his mother said. The strain proved too much and he suffered a heart attack and died.
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No murder charge for woman who tossed baby
ZHEJIANG - Police in Taizhou will not file murder charges against a 19-year-old who threw her dead baby out of a fifth-floor window after taking abortion pills last month, news website Zjol.com.cn reports.
The neighbours called the authorities after they found the dead newborn wrapped in a plastic bag on the ground. During their investigation, officers noticed blood on the legs of a woman tenant, and took her to hospital for examination.
She later confessed to throwing the baby away because she was afraid her family would find out. The police decided not to press murder charges after confirming the infant was already dead at birth.
