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Girl suffocates, cops say, but family has its doubts

POLICE have detained four people in the northern city of Tianjin in a case in which they said a two-year-old girl died on a school bus after she was molested by a 57-year-old driver.

Police announced that the girl died of "suffocation in high temperatures" after she was left alone in the school bus for seven hours, forgotten by the kindergarten teachers on August 29. The driver, two teachers and a kindergarten official have been detained, the Youth Times reported.

But the girl's parents are casting doubts on the police investigation since they found injures on her body. The newspaper said the last time the parents saw their daughter, she was dead, clenching her tiny fists, with eight holes in her chest as well as a wound on her face.

The girl wore only her underpants, put on inside out, and the parents were shocked to see blood on the girl's sex organs.

Forensic reports show the girl's hymen was damaged. Police told the parents that the driver "touched" the girl's private parts, but they said that was not the direct cause of her death, the newspaper said.

The girl died of suffocation in the bus, with all windows sealed, in the seven hours, police said.

"How can it even be possible that my daughter died of suffocation with so many injures on her body?" asked Xu Weisheng, the girl's father.




 

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