Toddler run over twice, left for dead

[Tuffty]

I'm sure you've seen this story already but in a worrying example of just how shitty humanity can be, this story has got to be right up there lately:

Two-year-old Wang Yue was run over by two cars last Thursday in a market in the southern province of Guangdong. Closed-circuit television footage of 18 people walking past her body without helping her has ignited outrage both inside China and worldwide.

After a week of battling to save her, doctors said her heart had stopped beating at 12.32am this morning. Her parents paid her a final visit shortly afterwards.

"For a week, we have spared no effort to save her," said a spokesman for the Guangzhou Military Hospital. "The best army doctors that we have have cared for her, but in the end her traumas were too great. We extend our condolences to her family."

The toddler, who wandered out of her parent's shop while her mother's back was turned, suffered brain damage and severe organ failure after being hit by two vehicles in a lane of the Guangzhou Foshan hardware market.

Some of the people who walked past her body, as it lay bleeding in the middle of the lane, denied seeing her. Others said they had been too scared to help her. It is possible that the toddler could have survived the initial accident if one of the early passers-by had come to her aid.

The episode has deeply shamed China and ignited a national debate about the marked disregard that many seem to have for their fellow man.

The girl's parents, Wang Chichang and Qu Feifei, have stopped short of pointing the finger, however, instead blaming themselves for their negligence. "There are still more good people than bad in the world," said Mr Wang.

How fucked up is this story? As if the driver getting away without helping her was bad enough, you mean to say noone out of 18 people wanted to help? It's just an awful story where I feel so bad. The only faint glimmer of light is there's a far greater number of people both in China and across the world in condemnation of what happened.

R.I.P. Wang Yue

[kuro808]

^ it is a prime example of bystander effect, a lot of people but no one to do the good deed, if you want to see a worst story, read the Kitty Genovese story.  Now, as a person outside the event, you would do it, but when you are within the area, will you be willing to help or wait for others?  However, it has created a double-edged sword as people who do help have been charged with crimes thus creating "Good Samaritan" rules.

For how much you feel bad for the girl and her family

[strawb3rrykream]

That's so fucked up. It's appalling to think that 18 people just didn't give a fuck about the life of another human being and just let her die like that. How the fuck would they feel if someone did that to their child or relative? Pretty fucking unhappy, I would venture to say. So what do they think makes it ok to let someone else's poor child bleed to death?!

It's both heartbreaking and touching to think that the parents blame themselves and still believe in humanity after such a thing happened.