Fall again
The windows on the fifth-floor balcony were out of glass, and looked like a big hole from a distance. The little baby girl fell from above and slammed it on the metal net on the first floor yard.
At around 1 o'clock at noon on November 30, she was only 4 months old in Kangtaiyuan Community, Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang City. She was only wrapped in a diaper.
The lowest temperature that day was only -1°C. In the north wind, the little girl turned purple from freezing.
She was taken to the hospital and taken home by her father Zheng Quan (a pseudonym), ready to let her "self-heal" by eating milk powder.
A week later, she was sent to Hebei Children's Hospital again by the local street office and entered the intensive care unit.
The doctor diagnosed that the baby girl suffered from skull fractures and intracranial compound injuries, which belonged to severe head injuries.
In addition, she had scratches on the skin on her back and bruises on her lungs.
More facts surfaced with this fall-it was her mother who was suspected to be suffering from mental illness that caused her to fall, and her father who refused to send her to the hospital, fed her with barley water, soy milk, etc .
Up to now, the baby girl is still lying in the ICU bed. In addition to her condition, more people are concerned about whether she will be sent back to the devastated home after she leaves the ward.
She has no name, no birth certificate, no registered residence, and has never been vaccinated since birth.
In the hospital's medical records, it was written as "the daughter of Zheng XX".
Lovers gave her a nickname "April" because she is only 4 months old now.
Hole in a window
The courier Yang Yanfeng was the first to pick up the baby girl from the metal net.
At noon that day, as soon as he arrived in Kangtaiyuan community, he heard the staff of the post station tell him, "A child was thrown down by her mother".
Yang Yanfeng felt incredible. He rushed over and took a look at the courtyard on the first floor facing the fifth-floor balcony. There was a low-rise cool room with a metal net in the air. There was a little baby lying on it. .
There were scattered residents nearby, some people called the police, and some people rushed to rescue the child.
It was a working day, and the onlookers were surrounded by old people. As the only young man, Yang Yanfeng climbed up in two steps.
He saw the child lying down without crying, his feet twitched occasionally, his eyes turned up, his body was purple, and he looked no other trauma.
Yang Yanfeng picked up the child, feeling her body cold.
When handing the child to the police and medical staff who arrived later, Yang Yanfeng noticed that the child's father was also nearby.
He was still wondering, "What do you think of a child?"
He only learned about the baby girl after seeing the news.
The local street office once sent the baby girl to the hospital twice on December 2 and December 5, but was also brought home by Zheng Quan both times.
On December 4, the child's mother was taken to a mental illness specialist hospital by the staff of the street office.
At 10 o'clock in the evening on December 7, the baby girl was sent to the Children's Hospital for treatment.
On December 8, the government of Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang City announced that the baby girl had been treated and said that “the public security organs have filed a case and conducted a forensic evaluation of Wei according to the procedures. The relevant departments have initiated social assistance procedures.”
"A 4-month-old baby girl can't lift her head, how could she fall downstairs by herself." Yang Yanfeng, who is also a father herself, felt incomprehensible.
"I am also very worried and want to go to the hospital to see the baby."
Caring people, including Ma Lin (a pseudonym), also found it incomprehensible.
Ma Lin is the person in charge of a special fund for a charitable foundation. When she saw the news of a baby girl falling from a building on the Internet, she immediately rushed to Shijiazhuang.
On the afternoon of December 5th, she and several local caring people came to Zheng Quan's home.
She recorded the scene in front of her with her mobile phone. The room with no glass on the window was narrow, messy, and uncleaned pots and pans stacked beside stacks of books.
The baby girl who was supposed to be treated in the hospital was lying on a pink mattress, wearing nothing but diapers.
The mattress was directly on the floor, she was covered with a blanket, and a toy was placed next to the pillow.
The one used to keep her warm is the electric heater that is radiating heat next to the mattress.
She found tears rolled from the corners of the eyes of the 4-month-old baby, but did not cry.
Ma Lin folded the wet towel in her hand twice, wiped her tears gently, and helped her to wipe off the secretions from the corners of her mouth. The baby's hand outside the blanket moved slowly twice.
Ma Lin felt "distressed" and she persuaded Zheng Quan to take the child to the hospital as soon as possible. The reply she got was "Just sleep more" and "There are too many bacteria in the hospital".
Ma Lin sent what she saw and heard to the love group specially established for baby girls.
The group immediately "exploded", and hundreds of messages were swiped in a few minutes.
Some people are anxious, how can such a small child drink walnut powder and barley water.
"Can't let her go back." This is the common feeling of many caring people who are concerned about this matter.
Ma Lin has recently received news that the civil affairs department of Shijiazhuang and the Youyi Sub-district Office of Qiaoxi District "have hired professional lawyers." The lawyers also responded that the police have filed a case on this matter and will soon conduct judicial mental appraisal on Zheng Quan.
"According to reports, there is a greater risk of allowing children to stay in such a family, and the safety of the children's lives cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, such parents cannot be allowed to have custody of their children." Deputy Shanghai Youth Crime Prevention Research Association Secretary-General Xi Peizhi said.
In 2014, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly issued the "Opinions on Handling Guardians’ Violations of Minors’ Rights and Interests in accordance with the Law", which clarified guardianship violations and seven categories of guardianship that should be revoked. Specific circumstances.
On July 4, 2014, the Xianyou County Court of Putian City, Fujian Province ruled on the first case of guardianship transfer in China, revoking the guardianship of a mother who abused her child for a long time.
Ma Lin had previously rescued another child in a similar situation. A mentally ill mother beat the child into a "gut rupture" and the rescue cost was more than 100,000 yuan.
In the end, the custody of the child was handed over to grandpa.
Xi Peizhi explained to a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that if the mother of a baby girl dropped the baby girl from the fifth floor, then this behavior must be a crime.
The father of the baby girl refused to let the baby girl receive treatment after learning that the baby girl was seriously injured, and his behavior was suspected of abuse.
Both parents have constituted a guardianship violation, which is in line with the first category of “abusive or violent harm to minors and serious damage to minors’ physical and mental health” by the people’s court to revoke their guardianship qualifications.
A family hole
All kinds of news about the little baby girl are updated every day, constantly thrown into several loving groups, and the face of this family is gradually being outlined.
The baby girl’s father, Zheng Quan, is unemployed. Her mother used to be an employee of a state-owned enterprise. She retired due to mental illness and still had a monthly pension of about 4,000 yuan.
Neighbors in the community talked about this family, and the most mentioned is that the mother and the baby girl went crazy from time to time.
Some people remember that she had a sudden attack in the vegetable market, chasing people and beating, and some people remembered that she used a knife to chop the fence in the corridor.
This house on the fifth floor belongs to the baby girl’s mother, and the baby girl’s grandmother lives in the nursing home.
Neighbors speculated that if it were not for the illness of his mother, it would be impossible to marry Zheng Quan, who was born in a rural village in Hengshui.
They have seen Zheng Quan walking around the community with a large bag of steamed buns, hoarding food for several days at a time.
No one seems to have seen exactly the scene of the baby girl being thrown from the window, but many people say that when the child was just born three or four days ago, she had already been thrown down from upstairs once. When the first floor was being renovated, a safety net was hung in the small courtyard. The child was not injured and was taken home directly.
No one thought that she would fall again after only 4 months.
"I fell on the metal net this time, and I fell badly." The staff at the rookie station in the community said.
The baby girl who fell from the building was not the only child in the family. She also had an 8-year-old sister and an older brother who only lived to be 6 months old.
A staff member of the Political Department of the Public Security Bureau of Luquan District, Shijiazhuang, said in a previous interview with the media that in May 2017, Zheng Quan’s last child drowned in a pond in a wetland park near the community. The suspect was a child. mother.
Because the suspect was "mentally ill", the case was dropped.
The 8-year-old sister was sent back to Zheng Quan's hometown early and was taken care of by her grandparents.
My grandmother died of cancer last year. The 73-year-old grandfather now takes care of the 8-year-old granddaughter alone with a monthly allowance of 108 yuan and the relief of Zheng Quan’s sister.
This old man suffering from cerebral thrombosis, leaned back while walking, moving step by step.
He would ride an electric tricycle every day to send his granddaughter to the primary school in the next village.
Zheng Quan seldom returns to the village, and the villagers' impression of him has been blurred.
People vaguely remember that he read a specialist course, went to work in Shijiazhuang early, and then occasionally returned to his hometown. He did not say clearly what he was doing.
He was bachelor until he was in his 40s, and suddenly got married. The marriage was "mentally ill", and he didn't return to the village for a banquet.
For so many years, none of the neighbors in his hometown have seen his wife.
She remembered that Zheng Quan's mother had mentioned the matter of adding another grandson a few years ago. The old man asked Zheng Quan to bring her young grandson back to them, but Zheng Quan refused.
It didn't take long before the news of the 6-month-old child's death came back.
The neighbour's aunty described how Zheng Quan had returned to his hometown with a tiny baby girl a few months ago.
She went to the old Zheng's house and saw that the little girl was drinking soy milk. She also heard that Zheng Quan delivered the baby to her daughter-in-law at home and cut the umbilical cord by himself. "He said he could be a doctor."
Now in this village, all the families who have children go to the hospital.
The hole behind a case
Now, the baby girl’s condition is showing signs of improvement.
Due to his serious injury, he could not leave the intensive care unit for a short time.
Ma Lin often keeps in touch with the hospital and the street office to inquire about the recent situation of the little girl.
As far as she knows, the girl’s brain has not continued to bleed, and the fracture and hydronephrosis have gradually eased.
However, the baby girl’s physical condition is still a bit bad. She has poor self-sucking ability, and she doesn’t know to take the initiative to open her mouth when she is hungry.
She will have a low-grade fever, her body temperature will fluctuate around 38°C, and she will not be in good spirits.
Sometimes she would be "unconsciously awake", but for a short period of time, her stress response ability was slow.
In professional terms, a sobriety score of 15 can leave the ICU, while the current score of a girl is 13.
A doctor once said in an interview that if a girl baby is transferred to a general ward, she needs to be taken care of by her family.
This sentence worries the caring people in the WeChat group again.
"What if I forcibly take her out of the hospital!" Someone was anxious.
Ma Lin reassures everyone: "The case has been filed for the father of the child, and a judicial psychiatric appraisal will be conducted on him soon. If the father of the child has mental and other symptoms after the appraisal, the guardianship will definitely not be in the hands of the father. But consider his hometown. The father of Xian has no ability to support, and the child may go to the orphanage later. However, if the father of the child has no mental problems after identification, he can file a lawsuit against the father of the child."
She also appealed online: "I hope that the relevant departments will deal with the matter severely, guardianship must be deprived, and the child must be treated thoroughly.
The Beijing Youth Legal Aid and Research Center has sorted out the cases of minors’ domestic violence reported by the media from 2008 to 2013, and found that 85% of the cases were parental violence, while minors only reported domestic violence against their parents. Accounted for 2%.
Professionals believe that child abuse incidents are often hidden.
Before the incident of the baby girl falling from the building, in April 2020, a 4-year-old girl from the Chuangye Farm in Jiansanjiang Reclamation District, Heilongjiang, was abused by her stepmother and was admitted to the hospital for treatment.
In May, a girl in Fushun was abused by her biological mother and her boyfriend for a long time. The injuries included one grade 7 disability, two grade 9 disability, and one grade 10 disability.
In August, a boy in Yugan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province was abused to death by his parents.
In 2016, the "Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening the Protection of Children in Distress" specified three types of children as children in distress. The third type is improper guardianship, abandonment, accidental injury, illegal infringement and other threats or violations of personal safety Children.
"Public security organs, civil affairs departments, neighborhood committees, women's federations, Communist Youth League, and other departments and organizations that have the responsibility of protecting minors should intervene in a timely manner to do a good job in temporary rescue and protection of minors. Public security organs should file investigations on their parents. Criminal offenses shall be investigated for legal responsibility in accordance with the law. The procuratorial organs should focus on the work of legal supervision." Xi Peizhi said.
In Xi Peizhi's view, the baby girl fell from upstairs twice. The injuries were caused by intracranial hemorrhage, loss of lungs, and kidneys. This fully conforms to the concept of children in distress, and "should receive timely assistance from the government."
This case has also constituted a criminal case. The person who committed this act was “susceptible of intentional homicide or intentional injury”. Therefore, the baby girl is not only a child in a difficult situation, but also a “criminal case of illegal assault”. victim".
In May 2020, the Supreme People's Procuratorate issued the "Opinions on Establishing a System for Compulsory Reporting of Violations of Minors (for Trial Implementation)". The newly revised Law on the Protection of Minors also added a mandatory reporting system when minors are found to be infringed.
Tong Lihua, director of the Beijing Youth Legal Aid and Research Center, participated in the revision of the new minor protection law.
He told reporters that Article 7 of the General Principles of the Law is clear, and the state also needs to take measures in such cases to "guide, support, help, and supervise minors’ parents and other guardians in performing their guardianship duties."
"On the issue of guardianship, this is the first time we have added such specific regulations to the general regulations." Tong Lihua said.
After the baby girl fell from the building, Xi Peizhi received a call from the relevant local department and asked him how the government department should intervene in this matter, and if it is illegal.
Xi Peizhi explained in detail the contents related to guardianship in the Civil Code and the latest minor protection laws and regulations, and repeatedly told the other party that it was "not illegal."
"If she fell down for the first time, the relevant departments should take measures at that time." Xi Peizhi said.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Zhang Miao Source: China Youth Daily