Evidently, a country with a policy to limit one child to a family has little compassion for the child. It seems as though when a country has a billion people there are plenty more where that one came from. In the reporting of another such incident, the argument was not about how the child was run over, but, whether or not the child was backed over again or even a second time. Evidently, running over children is a national past time so long as it doesn't happen twice.
CLIFFORD COONAN
CHINA WAS still reeling (click title to entry - thank you) from the national outpouring of grief over the brutal killing by indifference of a two-year-old toddler in the south when another story of the horrific death of a child emerged from Sichuan province.
A cement truck had struck five- year-old Xiong Maoke, who attended the local kindergarten in Yunfeng in Luxian county, and the driver reportedly reversed over the body to kill the child, because compensation for a dead child is less than that for an injured one. The hospital bills are a lot less.
“How much shall I pay?” was the driver’s reported first comment.
Local officials now insist the story is not accurate. “An investigation found no evidence that the boy had been run over twice,” Li Zekun, head of the Luxian county traffic police team, told a news conference, in remarks carried by the China Daily newspaper....
