Local bureau to be guardian of abused girl
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A LOCAL authority had been granted guardianship of an 11-year-old girl after her father was jailed for her rape and her divorced mother refused to take her in.
The case is the first to remove guardianship from parents since new rules aimed at protecting juveniles came into force on January 1.
The girl had lived with her father, surnamed Shao, in Xuzhou in east China’s Jiangsu Province after her parents divorced in 2006, yesterday’s Yangtze Evening News reported.
The unemployed father admitted to police he neglected the child and often beat her. He raped her for the first time when she was 8, he said.
The offenses came to light in June last year when the girl, who was starving, left home in search of food. She met a woman, Zhang Lan, who took the girl to her home and cooked her a meal, the newspaper said.
Several days later, the girl visited Zhang’s home again, saying she had been beaten. On a subsequent visit she told Zhang she had been raped that morning. Zhang called the police.
In October, Shao was sentenced to 11 years in prison. But her mother was indifferent to the girl’s plight, the newspaper said, and other relatives, including her grandparents, refused to take care of her.
Earlier this week, the Tongshan District People’s Court granted guardianship to the district’s civil affairs bureau but the girl will be living with Zhang.
Under the new rules, guardianship can be revoked if parents are found guilty of abuse or were inciting their children to commit crimes or beg for money.
In June 2013, a woman left her two daughters, aged 1 and 2, alone at home in the eastern city of Nanjing, causing them to starve to death.
The mother, who was jailed for life, had been detained for taking drugs, while her boyfriend was in jail for drug abuse at the time.
Neighbors and community workers had known about the mother’s neglect but felt powerless to intervene.
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