Child run over in China... report on BBC

[handmade34]

we are losing our humanity...

"Chinese and international media are issuing conflicting reports regarding the prognosis of Yue Yue, the two-year-old girl in China who was run over twice and left to die while no fewer than 18 bystanders passed her without coming to her aid."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15331773

[elocs]

1. Tragic. Did you just discover this story? n/t

[handmade34]

2. heard it on BBC this morning

[TBMASE]

3. Girls are not valued in China

it's been that way since the 1 Child policy

[Arkansas Granny]

4. It has been that way for much longer than that.

Girls are not valued in many cultures.

[Historic NY]

5. She dies of her injuries..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/toddler-in-china-hit-by-2-cars-then-ignored-dies/2011/10/21/gIQAmamL2L_story.html

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.