Pure evil. Parents neglect 4 year old.

A 4 year old girl was dumped at the emergency room entrance in New Taipei City, Sanxia. She only weighed 11kg. She had broken arm and the bone was protruding through the skin. She was left there already dead.

The mother is already in prison and the girl was left in the care of the boyfriend. The boyfriend and his grandmother were arrested after they tried to commit suicide by asphyxiation from burning charcoal in their home. It failed because they left a window partially open.

This is just sickening. Pure evil. Makes my blood boil.

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I feel bad for the child. It’s like every single person in her life has let her down and basically abandoned her plus worse. Hope she has some distance family that isn’t so damn psycho

Absolute scum.

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I don’t think it matters anymore… :cry:

There was a suicide/murder case yesterday in teh news. The school had called because the 7 year old child had been absent several days. The mom told them to stop bothering her. She was a single mother who lost her job. The neighbors called when they smelled a stink. Cops opened the place to find mom had used charcoal and they had been dead for days.

There is very little legislation to protect kids. Nothing to force the father to pay alimony - they prefer to take kid away. If lizhang or neighbors see something, authorities can’t take kids away like in the West. So kids are left in dangerous or unhealthy situations, until they die.

My 6 month old almost weighs as much as this 4 year old. The boyfriend should have a bullet put in his brain.

The Law, unfortunately, is a blunt instrument when it comes to stopping bad parents being bad parents … until something like this happens and it’s too late. In the UK the authorities have quite a bit of leeway to interfere, but they rarely actually do so. They’d prefer to just produce lots of reports, have meetings, and write academic papers about empowerment and oppression.

The fundamental problem is that it’s surprisingly hard to spot a potential psycho from arm’s length, and getting too aggressive tends to produce a lot of false positives. The only people who would really make the correct judgement are the neighbours, not the authorities.

So it all works much better when (a) parenting skills are highly valued and taught and (b) there’s a sense of community and people are keeping an eye out for (and on) each other. There are some parallels here with animal welfare - things have improved over the last 20 years not so much because the law has changed, but because attitudes have changed and people are (slightly) more willing to step up when they see bad stuff happening.

In teh ol country, they tend to jump the gun because we have a lot of unwanted children and a lot of gringos waiting to adopt a cute kid with cafe au lait skin or worse, white. They are very strict when it comes to child welfare, living conditions, etc. There is still child labor basically because meipanfa, too many kids would go hungry otherwise. And yet, any official would be appalled at what we see her in Taiwan every day. I see 10 cases a day where children would be removed on the way to and from work.

There is a systematic problem in Taiwan

They don’t track the kids properly when the families move to other counties. Recent case in Chiayi was like that. They had moved from Xinbei and Xinbei authorities didn’t track their wheabouts.

There are also not enough social workers to deal.with the cases.

Staff must deal with 100 new cases each month…

Obvious then that when they move they are not tracked.

Lack of neighbourly concern or awareness is obviously a factor too.

A large number of these kids are being abused when their mothers are in jail, usually for drug offences.

The problem of murder suicide is also a major one. Almost always related to financial pressures, debts.

Indeed. Just last week or so, a man took his 9 and 3 year old daughters for drive, parked his car, and lit some charcoal. Their bodies were found a day or two later. He was unemployed and in debt.