Reply To: Video from China

A little two year old girl wandered away from her mother in the marketplace. She was hit by a van (driver hesitated after front wheels hit, then hit her again with the back wheels). She lay dying in the street. 18 people were observed to walk past her (caught on video camera from a store) and no one stopped to help, although they all obviously saw her. Then another van hit her, twice, again, as she lay there. Finally, a garbage collector walking on foot saw her and tried to pick her up, but when she could not, located her mom who brought her to the emergency room. She was on a ventilator, with brain injury, in a coma, and died this past Sunday (it happened last Thursday in China/ Wednesday NY time).

I’m sorry to give you the gruesome details. This is just one of those things, that just can’t be ignored.

Some people are claiming that the Chinese are very wary of helping strangers as there have been a number of lawsuits against good samaritans who helped elderly and injured. How could this ever be an excuse to ignore a bleeding child?!?! I just find it so unforgivable.