02Feb 2-year-old Boy Chained to the Street

Two-meter long iron chain was tied to the iron post at the roadside at one end, and the other end was tied to a boy’s ankle.  “I scared I will lose him,” the boy’s father said.  The father explained the boy’s mother suffered from mental disorder, and she was unable to take care of the boy.  He needs to work to support the family.  He lost his 4-year-old daughter before and this cause him to chain his son in order to protect the son.

The incident happened at the west wing of Beijing Fangshan Liangxiang shopping centre.  Chen Chuan-Liu was working and there were a number of frostbite on his face.  There was a cardboard on the floor two meters away from the pole sign, and on the cardboard was a stroller.  The two-year-old boy was sitting on the cardboard drinking cold milk, and the pacifier was black in colour.  A driver shouted “Golden Egg” to the kid and the boy smiled at him.  Golden Egg’s right leg was chained with a two-meter long iron chain and tied to a pole sign.  Chen Chuan-Liu went to work every 10 minutes, and no one was looking after the boy during this period.  The boy’s mother, Yang Cai-Hong, was picking bottles on the other road and claimed that she was pregnant again.

A driver said that Chen Chuan-Liu tied his son here since three or four days ago, and Chen would bring the boy back home after work.  Chen said his hometown was Sichuan, and he had no relative at Beijing.  He needed to work to support the family and no extra time to take care of his son.  Chen also cannot afford to send the boy to kindergarten, therefore he rather chained his son than losing the boy.  Some people advised Chen to send his son to welfare organization to let others adopt the boy, but Chen could not bear to lose his son.  Zhang Wen-Juan, Deputy Director of Beijing Youth Aid and Research Centre, said that there was a lack in relevant welfare system in current legislation for those children with parents as they are not considered as orphans.

Source: Yahoo! News

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