Posted on 07/06/2012 5:01:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Authorities have suspended the director of an orphanage in eastern China after photographs showing two mentally disabled children shackled to furniture with metal chains were posted online.
The scandal, the latest example of how the internet and social media have become powerful weapons against human-rights abuses in China, broke late last month when photographs taken at an orphanage in Cangnan county, in Zhejiang province, began circulating online.
One image showed two boys, aged six and nine, eating from bowls while chained to a wooden bench with metal chains, rope and a blue bicycle lock.
“Is it a welfare home or child abuse home?” one user of Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, wrote under the name Kevin-JK356.
Referring to the orphanage’s staff, he added: “Dig them out and make them spend the rest of their lives like this!”
Another angry 'netizen’, Fengse Wangxiang, wrote: “Can this place be called a welfare house? It should be called a violent house.”
Following the online reaction, authorities launched an investigation into allegations of misconduct at the orphanage which was reportedly home to 21 children, 19 of whom were physically or mentally disabled, and staffed by “four elderly women, who had received no training or care provision.” According to a report in the state-controlled Xinhua new agency, local officials admitted “nurses had used chains to confine the two boys, both of whom suffer mental illness”.
Xinhua said nurses had resorted to using chains “to prevent the boys from defecating uncontrollably and hurting other children”.
In a statement released this week Cangnan county’s Communist Party committee said it had placed the orphanage’s director under investigation and was looking into the “possible misconduct” of staff.
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“You need not say one more word in order to convince me that I’m arguing with an abject ignoramous.”
Well, I should have known better than to try and reason with some yahoo that uses a kids sugary cereal as his on-line name. Good luck in your little fantasy world dude, you’ll need it.
You don’t seem to be getting it, all the characteristics that you list for the US justice system simply are not there any more. Sure I would love to live in a country that actually provided actual justice and a presumption of innocence but that unfortunately is not the US of A any more. People that get up on their high horse about China or other third world legal systems don’t seem to understand that ours is not all that much better and in some ways is worse than what you would experience as a citizen of some other country. You have bought the propaganda that’s been drilled into your head for your entire life that the US has “the best legal system in the world and fully protects its citizens”, it nothing but propaganda and even a passing search and honest attempt to open your eyes to that will make it quite clear that you are being lied to.
Is China a beacon of light in a dark world as far as their legal system is concerned? No far from it, it is in reality not much better or worse than most of the other legal systems out there, including the US legal system.
papertger,
Good responses but I’m afraid that you’re wasting your time with these clowns. They’ve closed their eyes to any and all things bad happening in the US.
I switched over from being a Republican to a Libertarian a long time ago once I realized that the Dems and Repubs were just two sides of the same coin and voting for either still got you the same thing in the end. Congratulations on your new daughter, hopefully she will be a blessing and joy to you and yours.
You put your finger right on my favorite illustration.
It is logically impossible to maintain the police may lie to a suspect for the purpose of obtaining evidence against them, AND that said suspect enjoys a "presumption of innocence."
Anyone who can not see these two principles are mutually exclusive is not smart enough to be involved in any serious discussion of freedom, liberty, and justice.
OK Captain Crunch I’ll slink off to my Paulbot Libertarian web site and leave you to thump your chest about how grand the good old US of A is. Now that I’ve had the last word I guess there really is no further point in posting here.
Oh and please don’t lump the 9/11 truthers in with the Paulbots they are not the same crowd. Although I will admit to being suspicious about the TWA flight 800 crash I can see no reason why anyone would believe that the US government participated in 9/11.
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