Girl in China Forced into Mental Hospital
These kinds of stories are pretty scary. In this particular one, a Chinese girl is sent to an insane asylum because her family allegedly wanted to have her 300,000元 dowry for themselves. A Chinese mental hospital is the last place I want to set foot in. Do you agree?
Too Many People or Decline in Moral Standards in Modern China?
Do frequent stories like this have more to do with the massive amount of people in China with little money or a decline in social moral standards in today’s China? What do you think?
The following is a translated Chinese-English excerpt from an article in yesterday’s 晶报:
For 300,000元, She was Forced into a Chinese Mental Hospital
A girl from Shenzhen was abducted and forced into Guangzhou’s Baiyun Mental Hospital. She believes her family did this to her for her 300,000元 dowry.
According to Zouyi’s friend, on the morning of October 21st Little Zou accompanied some family to Bao’an district in Shenzhen to pay respects to her father’s grave. On the way home, eight unfamiliar men suddenly appeared and forced her into a car in front of her older brother. They then brought her to be admitted into Baiyun Mental Hospital, and that same day at one o’clock in the afternoon she escaped the attention of a hospital attendant long enough to borrow a cellphone from a fellow inmate and call a friend for help. Her lawyer friend Huang Xueshi hurried to Guangzhou Baiyun Mental Hospital and demanded that they release her from the hospital, but was met with refusal.
She’s Crazy, Family Says
Yesterday afternoon, a reporter from Shenzhen rushed to Guangzhou Baiyun Mental Hospital to find out about this story, while her family also came from Shenzhen, preparing to provide a response to the situation at hand. They emphasized that Zhouyi’s mental condition had already been like this for quite some time, and because she refused to go in on her own, her family finally planned this forced treatment to prevent her mental condition from worsening further. They also said that the only people who brought her to the hospital were family members and nurses, saying they knew nothing of the strange abductors.
Do you believe the girl or the family?
