Police detain woman over injuries to 9-year-old boy
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A WOMAN in east China’s Jiangsu Province has been detained by police for allegedly abusing her adopted child.
Teachers at the 9-year-old’s school in Nanjing alerted police on April 1 after they spotted bruises on his feet, arms, back, ears and legs.
According to a report in Sunday’s Modern Express newspaper, the boy seemed to be unusually withdrawn and a teacher also found blood stains on his ears.
He is said to have told teachers that the scars on his back were made by his mother using a skipping rope and injuries to his ears and feet were from a pen and a water pipe, the report said.
The 50-year-old woman was taken away by police on Saturday. The newspaper said she had admitted beating the boy because he did not finish his homework.
Her husband, a lawyer, said the boy was the son of one of his wife’s cousins.
She treated him well although she was strict, he said. The boy was obedient at home and his performance at school was good, he told the newspaper.
The boy has been sent back to his biological parents, who are both farmers in east China’s Anhui Province.
“We hoped the child could have a better study environment and a promising future when we agreed to the adoption,” his father told the newspaper.
The boy is the youngest of three children and it had been suggested that he would be better off going to school in Nanjing during a family discussion about three to four years ago.
His father said he did not hate the woman who adopted his son, he said she had done him a favor. He hoped that the boy would be able to return to Nanjing to continue his studies.
Civil Affairs Bureau officials said they would announce details of the boy’s future after an investigation.
The boy is reliant on his adoptive mother, they said, and simply depriving the family of guardianship would not be good for his growth. More details of the case were needed.
China has laws on the welfare of children, but regulations are often difficult to implement because of authorites’ reluctance to meddle in family affairs.
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