By Kenneth
Tan on Oct 17, 2011
Earlier media reports that Yueyue, the toddler who
was knocked
down by two vehicles outside a market in Foshan, has
passed away have turned out to be false.
Yueyue's mother has appeared on Sina Weibo herself to
clarify the situation. She said that while Yueyue was still unable
to breathe on her own, her situation has stabilised, and she has
regained some sensation in her limbs. Doctors say that her chances
of recovery are now better than earlier estimated.
In an interview with the Daily
Telegraph, Yueyue's father lamented, “What’s up with people
these days? They make so many excuses to turn a blind eye. The
society is so indifferent, so heartless.”
His only hope now though is for his child's survival. “Yueyue is so
lovely, often amuses us. Sometime if I quarrelled with her mother
and if her mother cried, she would tell us not to cry, she always
tried to amuse us. I don’t have any thoughts now, I just hope my
child will wake up and call me Dad again,” he said.
Meanwhile, the first driver
who knocked down Yueyue has also been apprehended
by the police. Chinese
media reports say he
had just broken up with his girlfriend and was
on his cell phone when he hit
the girl.
He had called Yueyue's father to say he would never surrender, and that he could give him some money if that was
what he wished. When
a journalist called (tune in to the call below), he revealed that
he was planning to escape to Xinjiang.
"You saw that girl on the CCTV footage, she didn't see where she
was going, you know. I was on the phone when it happened, I didn't
mean it," he said. "When I realised I had knocked her down,
I thought I'd go down to see how she was. Then when I saw that she
was already bleeding, I decided to
just step on the gas pedal and escape seeing that nobody was around
me."
"If she is dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3,125). But if
she is injured, it may cost me hundreds of thousands yuan," he
added.
china really need to revamp their laws.
the govt and its people are equally guilty.
