Girl beat up baby who then fell from 25th floor
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A GIRL told police how she beat up a baby in the elevator of her apartment building, kicked him on the head, and then took him to her 25th-floor home where she beat him some more.
The 10-year-old said she then “played with the boy” on the balcony and he fell off, Chongqing’s news portal, cqnew.net, said last night, citing police.
They had launched an investigation after a local TV station aired footage of a girl kicking a baby in the head inside an elevator.
The girl is too young to be detained or charged, police said.
The infant’s mother, surnamed Zeng, has filed a lawsuit with a district court against the girl’s family, police said.
The baby, nicknamed Yuanyuan, regained consciousness on Wednesday, nine days after the incident, but will have to undergo surgery for his injuries next week, his father Li Shengzhong said on his microblog last night.
Doctors have described the surgery required as highly risky.
Yuanyuan’s family said he suffered skull fractures and bleeding in his lungs. He is being cared for in the intensive care unit at the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.
Security camera footage from the elevator showed the girl holding Yuanyuan up and then dropping him. Later she kicked him in the head and threw him out when the elevator door opened.
The girl’s father, surnamed Li, said his daughter had brought the baby to the balcony of their apartment on the 25th floor. But he insisted she hadn’t thrown him down on purpose. Instead, Yuanyuan fell by himself after being taken aback by a dog barking, he told The Beijing News.
“My daughter loves children and animals, but she has problems to express her love,” the father said. He said he and his wife often beat their daughter as punishment and he thought that might have affected her personality.
She kicked Yuanyuan because she thought he wasn’t being friendly to her by making a face, the father said.
“She hoped the boy would smile at her,” he added.
He said his wife had taken their daughter to northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where she is working, as the girl had been crying and screaming in the wake of the incident.
The girl had applied to drop out of her school and move to another one in Xinjiang, the principal of her former primary school, identified only as Liu, confirmed to The Beijing News last night.
Liu said the girl got along well with her classmates though she did not do well in academic performance.
There had been nothing out of the ordinary about her before the elevator incident, Liu told the newspaper.
Yuanyuan’s grandmother, surnamed Wu, told a local TV news channel that she was going down in the elevator with the child around 4pm on November 25. When the door opened at the first floor, she took the baby stroller out first. A girl got in but when Wu turned to fetch her grandson the doors had closed.
Wu saw that the elevator stopped at the 25th floor. When she arrived there she saw the girl leaving an apartment and asked her where the baby was.
At first the girl claimed a boy had carried him away but then she said it was a girl.
The girl told Wu not to worry and went with her to search for the little boy.
About five minutes later, a security guard at the residential complex found Yuanyuan lying in a pool of blood.
“His eyes were bulging and his head was swollen everywhere. He was unconscious,” Wu told the TV station.
There were marks in the grass and broken twigs about 7 to 8 meters away from where the boy was found.
Wu said they had just moved to the community about a month ago and had never met the girl’s family before.
The girl’s father said he “was willing” to be sued and promised to pay compensation. Police said that he had already paid 78,000 yuan (US$12,806) toward the baby’s medical bills, which to date have exceeded 50,000 yuan.
Both the injured boy’s parents are construction workers and their low incomes are not sufficient to cover further treatment.
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