Six-year-old Guizhou Child Branded; Criminal Punishment Hard To Impose

• Author: Chen Liping

Because Tingting, a female student in a class at a Guizhou Province Bijie City school, did not listen to her parents, they used red-hot fire-tongs to burn her buttocks, and her pants and rotten flesh stuck together, creating a sight too horrible to look at.

Jiang Yue-e, the head of the All-China Women’s Federation Rights and Interests Department, pointed out that according to criminal law, child abuse is considered private prosecution, and the abused child must go to court and sue her parents or have a relative sue for her. In actual judicial practice, under pressures of ability and family, children or their relatives typically will...