Chinese Toddler’s Hit and Run: Mother Praises Rescuer

so heart breaking, I have cried for this poor girl since I saw the video and it consumes me. I’m not religious at all and despite many horrible things I’ve seen and heard over my years, this is the first one to make me pray. I prayed for her and cried for her while falling asleep last night. I have a 2 yr old daughter myself and I have been holding her tighter every night. To the mother: be strong for your baby girl, the whole world is behind you and praying for Yueyue and your whole family :) I just don’t know what else to say. I wish I hadn’t seen the video because it plays over and over and over again in my head, and I’ve needed many hugs since seeing it. Please baby girl – be strong, you are well loved and cared for…..pretty girl

China… an overpopulated country.1.3 BILLION units. How valuable is human life in china? They are a colony of ants. Worker ants are expendable. Certainly, their babies are. They pollute themselves… they kill their female children. They generally look upon non-chinese as moving obstructions. They gave their own children milk tainted with the melamine, a TOXIC poison and they shipped it internationally. They sold to OUR children toys painted with lead-based paints. An apathetic, egocentric ‘culture’.

Why we ever sparred/contested with the Russian people and those of what was once the ‘Eastern-Bloc” countries, I’ll never know when our common enemy is on their eastern frontier. One of the Nazi’s motivations for European domination was the concept of Lebensraum, or ‘living space’ for the German people. Does anyone think that the chinese would not be very happy if we just sort of disappeared?
Wait and see. China is the enemy.

As we know, it was not the initial occurrence (even though it was through inattentive negligence), but the aftermath. HE THEN RAN OVER THE BABY AGAIN, ON PURPOSE!! Then, people looked down on a tiny body and walked away.

This cannot be compared to Kitty Genovese or Hugo Tale-Yax, or any quasi-similar occurrence in this country. In those cases, it was an adult at risk and bystanders might have assumed some danger to themselves should they have intervened (not that I agree). This was a CHILD… a little BABY that these animals allowed to lie alone, hurt and (God forbid that she was conscious) frightened in the street!!

It’s time for the world to declare economic war on this ant colony. When you plan on purchasing an item, look to see where it was made. If it was ‘Made in China’ buy an equivalent item made anywhere else.

This is what China is people, not the rich cultured heritage the talking heads would have you believe. Start demanding your congresspeople stop dealing with China and remove their favored nation status. They have low standards for life and liberty. But please, continue to enable their obviously perfect ways.

@ Carol. If it was raining, then why weren’t people walking around with Umbrellas or why wasn’t the wipers on for the van and truck that ran her over? Even if it was raining, that doesn’t give them the excuse to pretend like nothing happened.

@ Nunya. The mother assumed that since it’s her home area that people might care for her child since they’re all chinese; that they know one another…or so she thought. But now she sees there true colors. And who knows, she probably thought her husband was watching the kid and the husband thought she was watching the kid too.

Would be nice if there was a caption with the photo. I assume it shows the mother on the ground, distraught, with the father himself upset and trying to be comforting. The boy looking from the side is a little weird. I’d say this shows the Chinese as human and feeling and not so base as some commentors would believe. It’s nice to hear the woman who rescued the child has been rewarded, and, appreciated by the parents.

If this is real, it is truly a tragedy and my sympathies to the mother of that child. However, I do not trust any news coming from chinese news agencies. How do we know this is not just some engineered story concocted to drive home some moral message or philospohy by china’s ruling class.

In underdevelopoed countries life is undervalued. There is no possible way for people to live up to thier potential so they are percieved as worth less. Democracy is the path to human rights and that puts value on humanity. I apoligize for appearing to use a child’s traject death as a political soapbox, but I think we all see from the response to this trajedy just how the world can value life.

Wow! Not only did it take 19 Chinese people to come across the little girl before one finally stopped to help, but when someone finally does, there are actually people all ‘across China’ who accuse her of doing so for ‘publicity! I can’t even wrap my mind around what kind cold merciless society this must be. Absolutely no basic human compassion, and then attacking someone who shows some… very sad.

This is a society that skin their cats and dogs while still alive………..what do you expect!

@ ACLOC What’s the moral message they were trying to drive home? That the Chinese are heartless and have no basic human decency?

If this video was real it would be a terrible tradegy. I question the authenticity of this story:

1. Chinese media are notoriously tight lipped about the kind of stories that are allowed to be published. Normally, a story must fit the line which the ruling party wishes to express to the people. In this case, there is a concern among the ruling classes in China that the people are becoming too materialistic and this is anti-communist in nature. Accordingly, a video is published to provoke debate, which might lead to a reassessment of chinese values. The fact that it was a passing “scavenger” who rescued the child as opposed to a person of affluence fits this line.

2. The video is poor quality and does not contain suffucient detail to verfiy that the injuries are real, or to identify the people who walk past. However, the events take place right in front of a conveniently located camera.

3. It is inconceivable that that many people would walk past a dying child and do absolutely nothing. Someone would have at least raised the alarm. This is China, not Mars.

4. It is difficult to believe that a child hit twice by a passing vehicles and left for that length of time could survive.

The most important issues here is that someone in China CARED enough to help this little girl and GOD bless her.

If China is such a cold-hearted country with no morals, no care for their people, corrupt, etc, etc, all the adjectives that were blatantly used to decribe the country and it’s people, then what’s America’s excuse. We’re supposed to be progressive, caring, moral, with non-corrupt politicians, govement……
PLEASE. Just some of things I’ve read above tells a whole different story. We need to clean up our own BS before we judge any other country. We’ve done far worse.

My heart goes to this baby girl and her family, our prayer is with them. It’s happened in Guangdong – doubt the you had 18 people pass by this baby girl no one offered any help in Beijing – it is southern Chinese cultural – they are more inward, skin their cats and dogs while still alive, why they should care others? Generosity is not often found in southern Chinese vocabulary, especially in Kwangtungness cultural!

What is wrong with alot of you people, yes this is a tragic event that happened, but people going into how much china sucks with hate etched into their typing is just as bad as the people that ran over that little girl. You know nothing of chinese people or culture to bash them in such ways, look at your own culture and how your people are getting nastier, sex addicted, under educated, foul mouthed youths, bringing up chinese history on how they frown upon females which is not true and no they dont kill their female babies – you shouldnt pass down things you hear from your parents, just resaying which is no longer true, if you knew about china and had some intellectual curiousity would look up for yourself about china, all your showing is bigotry at this stage. for a country that claims to accept everyone , you sure have a ____ way of showing it.

As for the moron about selling painted toys with toxin on them to OUR children in the USA, thats not china its an individual company. The same in which recalls on pork and certain vegetables in the USA have happened recently because people died from consuming them. Oh, but i guess the US would never poison their own people, just china would poison US.. i cant believe you people.

This has to be looked at by the world as an act of cruelty to one who suffers and needs help, it happens everywhere. China is in an uproar about this more than anyone, as MOST chinese do not act this way, they value life very much. so stop bashing on people as a whole, your life must be pretty s_ _ tty to talk and assume before actual thinking comes into play.

What a bunch of heartless and selfish people. Who could leave an innocent child to die in the streets. What goes around comes around, you people will pay for this and i hope you pay in a horrible painful way. There is no forgiveness, there is no excuses. It sickens me to think there are people like this. Even though i’ve never been prejudice, i now have a different view of China and it’s people. I will never buy anything from China again. After all they don’t care about their own people, they have poisoned their baby’s with melamine in their formula. Cruel, heartless, greedy and selfish. If this little girl dies, then i hope you will burn in hell for eternity for what you have done.

We have become a disposable world. In the US, if your TV, DVD player, phone, PC, etc breaks, toss it out and get a new one. In china, it’s people. I bet hundreds of children were being born in China at the exact moment this girl was hit. It’s truly sad how little life is valued.

Excuse me but….all of you look through your own cities right here in the U.S. How many homeless people do you see, how many starving people do you see, how many children go without healthcare, food, shelter? What about all of those handicapped children that were just rescued from a basement after being held captive, here in America?
What are YOU doing to help with that? What about the Genocide in Africa? Are you blasting that government about that? This goes on all over the world…..just because you see a snipet of a video on the front page of your internet news feed, now you’ll speak up about how uncaring “These Chinese People are”? ALL OF US ARE ON THIS PLANET AND ALL OF US ARE RESPONSIBLE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! It’s time to speak out against all of it, all over the world, even here in America! We have to start placing VALUE ON LIFE, NOT MONEY! Money should be Outlawed!

this poor little girl may never walk and many other things but wow i was crying for this poor little inocent child who was hit twice and ignored by 18 bystanders unbelieveable

I agree with Gaza 100%.
I am also a little frustrated at the attack on Religion. Morals and beliefs don’t necessarily need to be tied to religion. Don’t start accusing other people of believing in “fake gods”. Your religion can be called into question just as easily. My thoughts and prayers go out to the little girl and her family. Who those prayers go to is up to me.

News from “official” Chinese government media sources cannot be verified and is completly unreliable. Stories propagated by the Chinese media are carefully selected and approved by the Chinese government. Look at the facts. None of the people involved in this story have been properly identified by their full names. There is a reluctance to give interviews. No culprits have been identified or arrested. No number plate details have been released or appeals for inforation made. No explanation has been given how a toddler could survive been completly run over by a car twice, survive for 6 minutes without assistance. No explanation is given how a mother and child walk by – a child being naturally curious should at least react to seeing something like this – this does not happen on the video. The video is incredibly vague and lacks detail. It is simply inconceivable that 18 people would react in this way to the sight of a dying toddler – I personally know many Chinese people from this region and I can absolutely tell you they are mostly decent people like you and I. Whether or not you agree there is a motivation to concoct a story like this (and there is for numerous reasons), news from official Chinese media outlets cannot be trusted and you may be debating an incident which never occurred.

What kind of person could just keep going on about their day after seeing a child lying in the road, hurt? I hope the image of that child is burned into their brains from now on.

Come on people..as HORRIBLE as this is that 17 people passed this child by, do you really believe this doesn’t happen here and is just as horrible…China is not the only country where things like this happen.. Take a look in our own back yard. God Bless the woman who did stop and help this poor baby. The mom has assumed responsibility for this happening. Recently there was news of a man who went to the emergency room which was very crowded, man keels over and lands on floor and dies. Not one person approached, checked on or did anything. Not even the hospital staff. People just totally ignored this person lying dead on the floor. It happened here folks. Apathy is the name of the game.

This is horrible…..and the people that are saying the lady helped because of publicity GET A LIFE! I don’t care why she helped the poor child, at least she helped…..maybe the people complaining are the once that did nothing and now they wish they would have so they could get the money and publicity!!!!

The worst thing you can do in China is embarrass the country. And here we have it. Several people who have been exposed to the world embarrassing China. Demonstrating how cold hearted the Chineese must be. Bad for business. Bad for politics. You can expect an uneven response by their government. But once the truth is exposed on the digital world of the internet, there’s no going back. The value of life in China is the same as the worst slums in the US.

Nunya asked where the mother was and why it took so long to appear – having spent two years in Asia I saw, especially in rural areas, women who would work, and toddlers left to fend for themselves along the roadside. Drivers were expected to watch out for them, and kids were expected to learn quickly to get out of the road. Those in the West who believe we will ever understand asian society or their thoughts and motivations are seriously mistaken.

F. Walsh and Gaza

This cannot be compared to Kitty Genovese or Hugo Tale-Yax, or any quasi-similar occurrence in this country. In those cases, it was an adult at risk and bystanders might have assumed some danger to themselves should they have intervened (not that I agree). This was a CHILD… a little BABY that these animals allowed to lie alone, hurt and (God forbid that she was conscious) frightened in the street!!

And china as a WHOLE exports its low regard for human life in the quality of many of its products

By the way , scr_w both of you

Do not blame it on religion , though none of us knows anything about those people.
Remember Stalin studied to be a Priest and HITLER WAS CATHOLIC all together with the rest of the NAZIS and the church supported them for most of the time , including helping many of them scape to southamerica, including MENGELE-
MENGELE, ANOTHER CATHOLIC WHO MADE HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS WITH LITTLE CHILDREN AND BABIES …
So religion has nothing to do with cold hearted people!
Lets just hope the little girl survives and regains consciousness

She’s 2, and small, innocent child. She has a whole life ahead of her, she didn’t know better , but the people around her did. She has a whole life ahead of her and for people to walk by her like she’s nothing is heartless. People need to have hearts, and not be selfish. Yueyue is her name, and people should hear her voice, her story! 
My yueyue be blessed in Gods hands and be saved, and be able to live her life!
         Get well soon yueyue, we are here for you, the people with hearts are here:)
                -Alysha Frazier

What bothers me most about the incident is that the people passing by, they might have been hesitant to go over and physically do something, but it did not stop them from yelling out, or using a mobile phone to call for help!!!!! Even the woman with a baby just walked by. It is truely shocking to see that these people did not care enough to get involved. Has their government/society molded their thinking to the point where there is no compassion!!! If so ,the communist model is truely a sad one. I know quite a few people that live outside of China, and they have all expressed shock over this incident.

There are many sadnesses in this horrible event.

But one that reflects badly on US is that all the vile little racists come out of the woodwork.

I really wished I hadn’t watched that video – a part of me died. I guess you can say I lost my faith in humanity! To see that poor baby walk right into the vehicle and I am sure the driver saw her and seemed to drive over her slowly – was so sick and heartbreaking that I haven’t been the same since. Those people are grotesque – to walk past a dog lying on the street in that manner is appaling but a child?!!! I just hope that major lessons are learned in China and around the world as a result of this. My shock and horror haven’t abated-what is this world coming to? We are all intrically connected as human beings on multiple levels – This should never ever have happened!!!!!!

I can’t even imagine there are people like that out there ! This video is replaying in my head making me cry every time I remember ! This incident may have ended if just one of them stopped and called the police and moved her aside ! HOW COULD BE ANYONE SO HEARTLESS ! If that was to happen here in Egypt no one would EVER ignore it ! I just don’t know what to say … the mother was mistaken but she was very unfairly punished.. I just pray she’ll be alright though it needs a miracle.. and I hope her parents would bare the pain ..

Let’s all pray for yueyue. I really wish for a miracle for her to get better. God, please help her…

“Meanwhile, many in China have said that she did the good deed seeking publicity.”

Whatever her reason was, she was the only one who helped. This is sad. Shame.

This sort of thing HAS happened in the US and will, likely, continue to. All you have to do is google “Witnessed beating rape” and you’ll find several stories. The classic one, cited as an example of the by-stander effect, involved a woman who was beaten and raped while screaming for help. After the perpetrator left, she continued calling for help outside of an occupied apartment building while people walked by. After a while, the rapist returned and raped her *again.* There were something in the neighborhood of 20 witnesses and no one did anything.

The by-stander effect is common… we think, “Someone (else) ought to do something about this!” There are often and usually good people who do stop and help, but it happens often.