I read today that the mother had been found dead in the boot of the car in New Zealand. I looked for the article but couldn’t find it.
The best sites are the New Zealand Herald and the major Australian press. It’s too bad, but many are not allowed to be posted per complaints, and others have to be edited, like the one above. Difficulty is, how to get under 300 words these stories that have so many twists and turns.
One was the missing adult daughter. About a month ago he was the subject of a short student film about his search for the missing daughter, crying about her, etc. with the interesting angle that she went “missing” while he was on an earlier trip to Los Angeles. Of course lots of people thought she met faoul play too. Nope, she turned up. She says she came from China when she was 19 and essentially he ignored her. She saw him two months ago and he wouldn’t acknowledge her existence.
from ABC Australia:
Abandoned toddler’s sister speaks out about father
By Michael Holland
September 21, 2007 - 9:37AM
Source: ABC
The case of abandoned toddler Xue Qian Xun has turned into a trans-pacific man hunt, with New Zealand police, who have been heavily criticised for their handling of the case, confirming her mother had been killed and her body stuffed in the back of the family car.
Her father, Michael Xue, has apparently fled to America and fears surrounding the whereabouts and safety of his eldest daughter from his first marriage have been allayed.
Meanwhile officials in NZ and Australia have cleared the way for her grandmother Liu Xiaoping to be reunited with the little girl.
Grace Xue came forward, not to speak for her fugitive father, but for the half-sister she has never met.
“I’m really worried about her well-being, what’s going to happen to her?,” Ms Xue said on the New Zealand TVNZ program Close Up.
“Is she going to be looked after? And is she going to go through the same emotions that I had when I was little? What can I do to help her not to feel the same way? I just want to help.
“I would very much like to see her and introduce myself to her, just to let her know that there is somebody there that cares about her and is going to give her support.
“I actively try not to think of [my father]. What [would] I say to him - ‘how could you?’ She just a little girl. I am angry, but I’m more sad.”
In the interview, Ms Xue describes her fugitive father as someone who “knows what he wants” and a person who “places himself above others.”
“He left me. There wasn’t home for me to be at and he left me two months [after] I arrived in New Zealand,” she said.
“He doesn’t love me and there’s no way I can count on him. I just decided that I need to count on myself and work really hard to build my own life.
“I have a loving boyfriend and have [the] most beautiful, gorgeous boy and I’m happy with where I am now.”
In a short film featuring his daughter Qian, Mr Xue says his elder daughter ran away and he had not seen her for four years.
“I guess people do things for different motives, different reason. I’m not sure if I can forgive him,” Ms Xue said.
“I was surprised that the way he left a little girl [Qian], but I’m not surprised that he abandoned her... similar things happened to me before, too.
“He doesn’t think he has a responsibility towards me, as a father.”