2-year-old ‘beaten to death’ by her carers
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A husband and wife suspected of beating a 2-year-old girl to death have been arrested for torturing people under care, Songjiang District prosecutors said.
According to police, the girl surnamed Feng was sent to hospital on November 25 with no life signs but multiple bruises on her body. Doctors suspected an “unnatural death.”
Police said the girl’s mother, surnamed Xiao, paid for an ayi, surnamed Gao, 25, to take care of the girl at night from October. “She sent the girl to Gao’s home at night and picked her up the next morning after she finished night shift work,” police said, adding that from November 6, Xiao had left her daughter entirely to Gao’s care.
Police said Gao and her husband surnamed Liu were migrant workers.
In an interview with Shanghai Television Station, Xiao said her husband was jailed for drug offenses after their daughter was born. It was too hard to raise the girl by herself and she found Gao, who charged 200 yuan (US$29) per day.
Since November, Xiao was busy starting her own business and she took some days away to return to her hometown in Guizhou Province, leaving her daughter in Gao’s care.
The couple’s neighbor said in a TV news interview that Gao and her husband seemed to get along with the girl. “They have a son in their hometown, aged 6. They often told the girl to call them father and mother,” the neighbor added.
Xiao said she had saw bruises on her daughter’s body but Gao said it was because that the girl was bitten by bugs or had fallen accidentally. “I have responsibility for my daughter’s death. I failed to create a good environment for her,” Xiao added.
Further investigation was under way, officials said.
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