Father held over needles in baby
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THE father of a baby girl who had four needles stuck into her body in two separate incidents this month has handed himself in to police.
Police in Bei’an City in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province said Yin Zhihe, 24, surrendered on Sunday, the Heilongjiang Daily reported yesterday.
Officers gave no details of a possible motive.
However, there have been claims that superstitions and doubts over paternity are possible factors.
A relative of Yin said that the father believed in a superstition that says if you stick needles into your daughter your next child will be a son.
It was also claimed that a fortune teller had warned Yin that his daughter would bring him misfortune.
However, a source close to the family told the People’s Daily that Yin was driven by a suspicion that the baby was not his.
Yin is said to have had fertility problems and undergone treatment. Afterward, his wife, Li Mingyang, became pregnant, but he was suspicious about who the father was, the report said.
He refused Li’s demand for a DNA test to show the child was his and targeted the baby after they quarreled, it is claimed.
Two-month-old Yin Shengjie was first hospitalized with a needle in her body on August 5, which was removed.
She was rushed to hospital again on August 18 after falling ill, where it was found that three needles had pierced her liver and a kidney.
The child was transferred from an intensive care unit to a ward on Monday afternoon after the three needles — each 4.5 centimeters long — were removed last Friday.
Police took these as part of their investigation.
Xu Zhilin, a pediatrician treating Shengjie, said the baby girl is out of danger.
“Shengjie shouldn’t experience any further effects,” Xu told Harbin News Network.
Li breast-fed her on Monday, Li’s sister, Li Mingxing, said. She added that the baby girl was lively — laughing, crying and playing with her mother.
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