A 40-second video posted in Miaopai showed a Guangdong woman on a motorcycle driving over the legs of a five-year-old child. The incident occurred in an alley in Yangjiang City.
Before the woman drove the motorcycle, the video which has gone viral, shows a young girl dragging another child in green pants lying on the ground. The woman on motorcycle, who has a child passenger seated in front, yelled at the children and drives over the legs of the child on the ground.
Trending on Weibo
Chinese media reported the incident on Tuesday, while the incident became trending on Weibo where netizens expressed their anger at what the woman on the motorcycle did, according to What’s on Weibo. Netizens described what the woman did to the child as inhumane. Many added the motorcycle-riding woman deserves to be beaten to death.
But it is not just the woman who received the brunt of collective netizen anger. Some Chinese commented that it does not help even if someone called the police over the incident because all authorities would do in this case is give some talk. They believe the police is not doing enough against child abuse.
Police have traced the woman on motorcycle and taken her into custody for investigation. Child abuse is quite common in China with parents or adults beating their children to discipline them which breaches the law.
Law on Anti-Domestic Violence
In late 2015, China passed the country’s first anti-domestic violence legislation. The law bans any form of domestic violence, to include psychological abuse. However, its target includes married women since 90 percent of the 40,000 to 50,000 cases reported across China involved wives being abused by their husbands.
While the law included cohabiting unmarried couples, it excludes gay couples because legislators have not discovered that form of domestic violence, Guo Limao, member of the legislative affairs commission of China’s Parliament’s standing committee, said, The Guardian reported.
Besides the case of the five-year-old child, there have been other incidents in China when children were run over by vehicles such as this one below.