Pregnant Woman in China Lures a Teenager to Her Doom By Shannon Liao, Epoch Times
The idea of helping out a pregnant woman—for example, by giving up a seat on the bus or train—is ingrained in both Western and Chinese culture as the right thing to do.
It was disrupted recently in China, however, after a 17-year-old girl, after helping a pregnant woman on the street, was drugged, raped, killed, stuffed in a suitcase, and dumped in the woods, in the northern province of Heilongjiang.
The Internet in China responded with shock and outrage, and spread the story widely. The case is being added to a numbing list of such incidents, all of which contribute to the reluctance of Chinese people to help and trust one another.
A poll on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, posed the question: “Would you help a pregnant woman cross the street?” Of the 1,054 votes, 86.7 percent said, “No, I’m afraid of being tricked.” Less than 20 percent voted for, “Yes, I will still do it since most people are inherently good.”
“What this incident took away wasn’t just a young girl’s life, but taking away all the compassion in this world,” a Shanxi netizen wrote after seeing the result.
The incident took place on July 24 after a pregnant woman, surnamed Tan, pretended to fall ill in the street. After luring her home she gave the girl, named Hu Yixuan, a yogurt with crushed sleeping pills inside. After the drugs took effect the husband sexually assaulted Hu, before the couple suffocated her with a quilt and buried her a few miles away from their county, where police found her on Sunday.
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Hu Yixuan, the teenage victim, was described by friends as outgoing and cheerful and interested in fashion and beauty. She interned at the county hospital as a nurse.
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