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Video of nursing home torture enrages viewers
By Yang Jian |
June 1, 2011, Wednesday
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POLICE have detained a male nurse who allegedly beat senior people and forced them to drink urine in a nursing house in central China's Henan Province.
Zheng Huanming, the 62-year-old nurse in Changleyuan Senior Home in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, woke up the elderly people at 4am every day and forced some of them to drink yellow liquid from plastic bags, which a witness surnamed Wang said was urine, the Yangtze Evening News reported today.
Zheng opened the mouth of one of them and poured the liquid in. The victim struggled and shouted "No, it is salty." But Zheng continued forcing them to drink and laughed, Wang said.
Wang, who lives in a nearby building, said he often heard cries and screams from the nursing home, so he went to another building overlooking the nursing home one night and saw the abuses.
He tipped off a local television station which sent a crew to secretly film the torture, including forcing seniors to drink urine, from a window in the building after lurking there for six nights.
The nurse was seen to tie up elderly people and beat them on the head if they refused to get up so early, according to the video filmed by the TV station and now posted online.
In one scene, an old man was seen bound in bed and he screamed and cried when Zheng beat and cursed him repeatedly. The video clip has enraged viewers on the Internet.
Zheng told the police that he woke up the old people at about 4am to urge them to go to toilet otherwise they would urinate in bed, the report said.
"Many old people are out of their heads and I was kidding them with curses," Zheng was quoted as saying.
He refused to say what liquid he forced the old people to drink, the report added.
Another male nurse who was also involved in the abuses was also detained by police who are investigating the case. If their torturing is proven true, the two nurses will face criminal charges and the nursing home will be punished, the report said.
Zheng Huanming, the 62-year-old nurse in Changleyuan Senior Home in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, woke up the elderly people at 4am every day and forced some of them to drink yellow liquid from plastic bags, which a witness surnamed Wang said was urine, the Yangtze Evening News reported today.
Zheng opened the mouth of one of them and poured the liquid in. The victim struggled and shouted "No, it is salty." But Zheng continued forcing them to drink and laughed, Wang said.
Wang, who lives in a nearby building, said he often heard cries and screams from the nursing home, so he went to another building overlooking the nursing home one night and saw the abuses.
He tipped off a local television station which sent a crew to secretly film the torture, including forcing seniors to drink urine, from a window in the building after lurking there for six nights.
The nurse was seen to tie up elderly people and beat them on the head if they refused to get up so early, according to the video filmed by the TV station and now posted online.
In one scene, an old man was seen bound in bed and he screamed and cried when Zheng beat and cursed him repeatedly. The video clip has enraged viewers on the Internet.
Zheng told the police that he woke up the old people at about 4am to urge them to go to toilet otherwise they would urinate in bed, the report said.
"Many old people are out of their heads and I was kidding them with curses," Zheng was quoted as saying.
He refused to say what liquid he forced the old people to drink, the report added.
Another male nurse who was also involved in the abuses was also detained by police who are investigating the case. If their torturing is proven true, the two nurses will face criminal charges and the nursing home will be punished, the report said.
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