The neglected left-behind teenagers in the small town behind the incident of juvenile toilet bullying in Shexian County
On the afternoon of August 22, the Oaks restaurant at the intersection of Huizhou Road and Xiaobei Street is a place where young people like to gather. Many regular customers here know Wang Qian.
A08-A09 version of photography (except for signature) / Beijing News reporter Qiao Chi
A group of young girls gathered in a small public toilet.
The leading girl slapped a little girl who was half a head shorter than her. The latter did not resist or speak, but bowed her head or used her arm to block her face in self-defense.
In mid-August, this 4:51-second video of minor bullying in public toilets was circulated in the WeChat group of locals in Shexian County, and was later posted on Weibo, causing public opinion to ferment.
The 14-year-old perpetrator Wang Qian slapped Zhu Ruirui of the same age for nearly a hundred times.
During the period, Zhu Ruirui's mouth bleeds, her face is swollen, and weeping, but Wang Qian did not stop.
At the public toilet, there were five onlookers watching the girls curiously watching Zhu Ruirui's reaction when he was beaten, but no one stood up to stop the violence.
In the eyes of the students at the same school, Wang Qian is a famous "problem student" who has participated in fights more than once.
And Zhu Ruirui was also a child who made her family helpless, "not listening to anyone in the family", her father Zhu Mingtang complained that she always made up various reasons to cheat her grandparents' money to She County.
According to data from Huangshan News Network, Shexian County is a county with outflow of population. More than 100,000 people work abroad and nearly 20,000 left-behind children a year.
Wang Qian and Zhu Ruirui have very similar family backgrounds, both of whom were left unattended after their parents divorced and remarried.
Living with grandparents or grandparents, the feelings and communication with parents have been neglected for a long time.
As they entered puberty, they were involved in a storm of public opinion because of this bullying incident.
Girls who want to fit into the circle
Zhu Ruirui has just turned 14 years old, shoulder-length black hair, and a height of about 1.5 meters, looks like a schoolboy.
When she first met, her eyes were dodged and her voice was soft.
In the eyes of grandma Xue Guizhen, Zhu Ruirui, who seems to be "behaved" or even "weak" to outsiders, is very assertive.
She has "escaped" many times and the destination is Shexian.
Xue Guizhen reported to the police twice, but to no avail: the granddaughter became more and more difficult to manage.
There are many mountains to go from Shendu Town to Shexian County, and a half-hour mountain road isolates the outside world far.
Even though the Xin'an River Landscape Gallery Scenic Area is at the doorstep of the home, Shendu Town is still simple and slightly backward, and has no connection with the prosperity.
Zhu Ruirui's parents divorced when she was three years old, and later remarried and gave birth to children. Zhu Ruirui was "stayed" at her grandparents' house.
Most of the people in the village are elderly people. Zhu Ruirui has no playmates of the same age, only the nagging of his grandma and endless housework.
But in She County, there are many young people who are similar to her age, including milk tea shops and snack bars.
Zhu Ruirui would use QQ and Kuaishou to add nearby peers there. It was a world of young people.
In the eyes of his father Zhu Mingtang, his daughter went to She County many times to play. In addition to looking for her peers, she also hoped that a circle would protect her.
And this circle is also Wang Qian's circle.
"She wants to integrate into their (Wang Qian) circle, and even find friends who are older than her to play."
Wang Qian once also beat Zhu Ruirui's friend.
But Zhu Ruirui said that anyone who was beaten by Wang Qian before would still be willing to become good friends with Wang Qian.
"After the fight, the relationship between the two people is very good."
Zhu Ruirui had seen Wang Qian post a beating video on Kuaishou, and there were mosaics on the faces of the people who were beaten.
"Others call her sister Qian, and they follow her." Zhu Ruirui felt that Wang Qian's beating was "to make others look up to her". She likes to take pictures of the beating process to show off or threaten others.
For a while, Zhu Ruirui seemed to have entered this "circle".
This spring, she and Wang Qian went to Xiuning County, 30 kilometers away from She County, to play alone.
"The money spent on going out is all mine." Wang Qian said.
The two agreed to find friends to play, but not long after they arrived in Xiuning, Zhu Ruirui dropped Wang Qian and ran to find other friends.
Wang Qian still remembered that it was raining heavily that day, "Kindly accompany her to Xiuning, and she throws me away."
After that, Wang Qian's evaluation of Zhu Ruirui was, "It's not good to be a human being."
On the afternoon of August 4, Zhu Ruirui ran to Shexian again. While waiting for friends at the Aux restaurant, Wang Qian and his group happened to pass by.
Wang Qian offered to single her out, and then a group of people went to the public toilet on Doosan Street.
This is an ancient alley inside the ancient city of Huizhou, except for tourists and residents, few people go in.
Now, there are few tourists, and public toilets are not monitored, which is relatively “safe”.
As you can see in the video, Wang Qian raised her arms and slapped Zhu Ruirui forcefully for nearly a hundred times. The sound of her slap falling was loud and heavy.
In the video, 5 girls were watching, and the boys were recording videos at the toilet door.
In the meantime, Wang Qian pulled Zhu's hair behind her ears and asked the girls who were watching if she wanted to hit her. One girl replied, "I don't want to fan, I don't dare." Wang Qian said, "It's okay, fan, I will carry it."
Halfway through the fight, the girls saw Zhu Ruirui's mouth bleeding, so they gathered around and said, "Let me have a look."
Wang Qian didn't stop. She slapped Zhu Ruirui with a left and right bow. She said, "Are you going to apologize to me." Zhu's hair was broken, and Wang Qian tied her hair.
The girls around teased "So gentle, sister Qian."
The girls onlookers seemed to be watching a performance.
With the repeated encouragement of onlookers Hu Zhouzhou, the onlooker girl Lu Xiaoqi also stepped forward and slapped Zhu Ruirui vigorously. The girls around laughed and applauded.
Zhu Ruirui cried.
From beginning to end, she didn't fight back or speak, and the only action was when she was slapped continuously, she would lower her head vigorously, or use her arms to block her face in self-defense.
She dared not fight back.
"There are so many of them, I'm afraid they will get more beatings if they fight back." Zhu Ruirui said, the beatings lasted more than ten minutes, and the number of slaps was more than seen in the video.
She later said that she was beaten because of the online spat last year.
After the fight, Wang Qian said to Zhu Ruirui, "Don't tell others, we can still do well in the future."
On the night of the beating, Zhu Ruirui spent the night at a friend's house in Shexian County. The friend's father saw the wound on her face and called the police.
The police called Zhu Ruirui's grandparents and father Zhu Mingtang to She County.
But Zhu Ruirui refused to tell the truth and kept saying that he had knocked it off.
"I don't want to talk, and I don't want to make things bigger."
Zhu Ruirui told reporters that she did not dare to tell her family because she felt that this matter was not very good.
But ten days later, a neighbor asked Xue Guizhen with his mobile phone, "Is this your granddaughter? The fight is so pitiful that the family doesn't know it?"
Xue Guizhen discovered that her granddaughter had been beaten. Everyone in the village saw the video of her granddaughter being beaten.
She called Zhu Mingtang and asked him in the first sentence, have you seen the video on the Internet?
Bully
Zhu Ruirui commented that Wang Qian is an ordinary person, can make-up, "people are pretty good."
When Xue Guizhen spoke harshly to Wang Qian, Zhu Ruirui would retort, "Don't talk about others like this, they also have dignity."
On August 20, the reporter met Wang Qian in Xu Village, 4.5 kilometers away from Shexian County. She said, "I didn't bully the weak. I'm the same age as Zhu Ruirui, she just looked smaller."
Wang Qian is about 1.65 meters tall. She is wearing a black basketball T-shirt and black shorts. She has three tattoos on her arms.
A round face, with black straight short and medium hair, looks like a student, unlike the mature look in the video.
Wang Qian’s friend Zhao Qiguan remembered that on the night of August 4, he received a face-up video of Zhu Ruirui being beaten from Wang Qian.
Zhao Qiguan returned a "6", which meant something terrific.
On the evening of August 13, the video was uploaded online.
At around 6 o’clock in the morning on August 14, Wang Qian sent a text message to Zhu Mingtang. “I’ll apologize to you first. If you lose money, my mother really doesn’t. It took a lot of money to see the doctor for two days, so I can kneel down and apologize to Zhu Ruirui, but I don’t want my mother to worry about it."
Zhu Mingtang did not see this text message.
On the morning of August 14, when he saw the video of his daughter being beaten and rushed to the Huicheng police station, the police had already opened the case.
At more than two o'clock in the morning on August 15, Wang Qian finished her confession at the Huicheng police station, and she sent Zhu Mingtang another WeChat message, "just came out of the police station."
Zhu Mingtang replied, "Yes, you can still come out." Then he replied, "Now it is a society under the rule of law, I don't want to talk to you more, I will leave it to the court."
Wang Qian replied, "6".
Wang Qian also told reporters that the reason for beating Zhu Ruirui was their online quarrel, "Before Zhu Ruirui scolded my friend at school, and she spoke crazy in school."
"I was supposed to let Zhu Ruirui apologize at the time. She gave me a face." Wang Qian said. On the way from Ax to the toilet, she said to Zhu, "Either we are singled out, or you can say to me. Apologize." Zhu Ruirui remained silent.
This made Wang Qian "infuriated", "I didn't put her on the ground and beat her, I feel that I have a conscience."
She complained that Zhu Ruirui didn't fight back, "As long as she slaps me back, the two of us will pick up and solve the matter in five minutes." After the fight, Wang Qian felt that Zhu Ruirui was fine, "The mouth is just like a bite. , Swollen a little bit."
However, after the beating video was fermented, Wang Qian, as a bully, took screenshots to spread the slightly mature, rebellious, and non-mainstream dynamics in her QQ space.
Many people add Wang Qian's QQ friends to scold her.
Suddenly attacking, Wang Qian's reaction was, "Why should I be afraid? (Netizens) scold me and scold me back."
Her family situation is similar to that of Zhu Ruirui. Her parents are divorced and are not around. She usually lives with her grandfather and grandmother.
"She (Wang Qian) is also unlucky." Grandpa commented on this matter.
Wang Qian said that she was expelled from the middle school before, and then the school asked her to go back to class, but she did not return, and her student status was still in Xin'an Middle School.
After the bullying was exposed, the She County Bureau of Education and the head teacher of Xin'an Middle School visited home every day, asking her to write a reflection and review, "I am going to write and explode." She heard from the teacher that the school will open a separate room for her next semester. classroom.
The teenagers gathered in Oaks
Aux Restaurant is a gathering place for teenagers.
Located at the intersection of Huizhou Road and Xiaobei Street, this is the street with the largest traffic in Shexian County and the most concentrated place for fast food restaurants and milk tea shops.
Oaks has only one small facade, and you need to go up to the second floor to enter the door. There are small boxes in the window area on the left.
Here you can sit for a whole day without ordering a glass of Coke for three dollars.
After lunch time, it became a gathering place for students.
Most of the students here said they had heard of Wang Qian, she was a "man of the wind" in the school.
Li Yueming was also a student of Xin'an Middle School.
He said that Wang Qian is a well-known "problematic student" in Xin'an Middle School. Fighting is very common. The reason for beating is a little unexplainable, just because they are "unhappy with others."
According to Li Yueming's understanding, Wang Qian dropped out of school on the first or second grade.
Axe is also the most frequent place for students who are "fighting people".
When there is nothing to do, it becomes a place for them to socialize.
Zhao Qiguan and his friends come to Australia every day. He is 16 years old this year, which should be the age of school, but because there are no female classmates in the vocational high school, he chose to drop out.
Every day I sleep until noon to get up, have a meal, come to Xiaobei Street to buy milk tea, and then come to Aucks to chat.
Around 6 or 7 in the evening, it was the peak of social interaction. Many boys with light-colored hair and tattoos came to the restaurant in twos and threes to find friends.
The teenagers said that most of their parents go out to work, and the requirement for their children is to learn a craft.
If you can’t finish high school, you can go to vocational high school, or you can study technical work such as auto repair.
They love to dye light-colored hair. Zhao Qiguan, who was dyed in yellow ion iron, and his friend who dyed pink hair went out on the road. They had a high rate of turning their heads back, but they didn't care about these eyes at all.
In the eyes of Zhao Qiguan and his friends, Wang Qian, a "man of the wind", is much lower-key in front of them, "like a dead cat".
Zhao Qiguan even saw the video of Wang Qian being beaten.
One of the videos was shot in a dark place. Someone was using a mobile phone to turn on the lights. Wang Qian was pressed to the ground by a girl. The girl sat on Wang Qian's body and slapped her face.
Wang Qian covered her face and said, "Oh, nosebleed, stop." In another video, Wang Qian and Zhu Ruirui were about the same, and they were also slapped while standing.
On August 15, the She County Public Security Bureau issued an administrative penalty decision.
The Shexian County Public Security Bureau determined that the behavior of Wang Qian and other ten persons constituted provocation and provocation in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Public Security Administration Punishments.
Because the assailant is under the age of 16, the administrative detention penalty is not executed in accordance with the law.
As the only adult in the case, Hu Junfeng led Wang Qian and others to help find a place. He used his mobile phone to shoot and threatened to fight. He was detained for 14 days.
"As a 14-year-old girl, she (Wang Qian) has been punished. It will affect her if she does not leave the case." On August 21, Wu Jiong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Shexian County Party Committee, told the Beijing News The reporter said.
Wu Jiong analyzed the incident, "One is because of a single parent family, the second is because of the rebelliousness of adolescents, and the third is because (the child) has a competitive mentality. I think this is very prestigious. The girls(s) followed me and surrounded me. I read."
Neglected left-behind teenagers
The video of her daughter being beaten up went viral on the Internet, and Zhu Mingtang couldn't restrain her anger. “My daughter must have been hurt physically and mentally.” He said that after the case was filed, none of the parents who beat the child formally apologized.
Only Wang Qian’s mother made a call, “I didn’t see the sincere attitude of the child’s family.”
It was not until August 29 that Zhu Mingtang waited to apologize.
He went to the She County Public Security Bureau to coordinate with the parents of the beating and onlookers.
On the same day, the parents of five participants bowed and apologized to Zhu Mingtang, saying that they had not fulfilled their guardianship responsibilities to the children.
Zhu Mingtang accepted the apology and received 43,000 yuan in compensation after coordination.
After divorcing Zhu Ruirui's mother, Zhu Mingtang went to Hangzhou to work.
I opened a barbecue restaurant and did interior decoration. I opened a milk tea shop in Shexian in the first half of this year, but it closed down.
He is remarried and has a nine-year-old daughter.
"I also want to survive. I have a new family and a young daughter. It is impossible to guard her every day." Zhu Mingtang said.
For more than ten years, father and daughter have only seen three or four times a year.
Zhu Ruirui recalled that her father went home less often and cared little about her.
The father and daughter barely spoke when they met.
"The feeling that you can't say what you want to say." Zhu Mingtang also couldn't feel the respect of her daughter.
As for her mother, Zhu Ruirui feels even more unfamiliar.
"After the divorce, her mother never bought her clothes and shoes. She called her to ask for it this year, and she bought short sleeves and shorts for her daughter." Xue Guizhen said.
Mother and daughter can’t make a few calls a year, and every time she talks, her mother only repeats the same thing—"Listen to grandparents and do more for the family." Even if she was beaten this time, Zhu Ruirui did not expect to get her mother's. care.
Contrary to her parents, her grandparents are extremely doting on her, almost responsive.
"Her parents are remarried, we can't neglect her anymore."
In She County, many families are similar to those of Zhu Ruirui.
According to a report by Huangshan News Network in 2007, there are more than 100,000 migrant workers in Shexian a year, which brings about 20,000 left-behind children, accounting for more than 20% of the total number of children in school, and even as high as 50% in some remote mountainous areas- 60%.
Educational theory academic publication "Life Education" reported in 2010 that the She County Education Bureau provided information that 60% of the left-behind children in She County can see their parents twice a year, 35% of the children see their parents once a year, and 5 % Of children do not see their parents once a year.
The inevitable lack of communication between generations and relatives has caused many children to have various problems.
Chen Ming, deputy director of the Shexian Education Bureau, introduced that Shexian, Anhui is one of the five experimental sites for social intervention for left-behind children nationwide.
Zong Chunshan, director of the Beijing Youth Legal and Psychological Counseling Service Center, mentioned that usually in bullying incidents, the victim and the perpetrator are two sides of the same problem. They may have very similar family backgrounds and are neglected children.
When asked if there were parents by his side, Wang Qian said, “(They) control me, and now I can’t stand in this place.” In the QQ dynamic screenshot posted on the Internet, Wang Qian sent a video of beating his mother. , Said "Look at your daughter" in a bragging tone.
Mother Xu Yao replied, "Give me home today. Mom is mad at you, so you can't make trouble anymore."
Zong Chunshan believes that in the past, minor fights or bullying incidents were heard by everyone. Now that smart phones are popular, and videos of beatings are spreading on the Internet on a large scale, "video images are very impactful."
The perpetrators are willing to record the beating scenes and spread them because they desire to be noticed.
"If no one saw this, it would be a great pity for them. They hope that others will see what they call powerful."
For families like Zhu Ruirui, Zong Chunshan calls them "disadvantaged families and problem families." Such families have no means and ability to educate their children, so they need the intervention of schools and society.
Schools play a bigger role. First of all, schools must be aware of the reasons for children’s problems. Teachers pay attention and help to these children in terms of learning and psychological conditions in the classroom and school life.
At the same time, it is necessary to introduce professional social workers from the society to carry out long-term psychological interventions on the family and children to be effective.
Now, the only thing that makes Zhu Ruirui feel relieved is that Zhu Mingtang has shown much more concern to her recently than before.
Zhu Mingtang took his daughter to Shexian Changren Hospital and Shexian People's Hospital for examinations in the Department of Orthopedics and Brain and Otology. The examination report showed that there was no major problem for the time being.
She hopes that Dad can continue to maintain this concern, "If (in the future) care like this, I think it's pretty good."
(Wang Qian, Zhu Ruirui, Zhao Qiguan, Zhu Mingtang, Xue Guizhen, Lu Xiaoqi, Hu Zhouzhou, and Hu Junfeng in the text are all pseudonyms)
Beijing News reporter Qiao Chi