October 20th, 2011
Yueyue, Chinese toddler struck in hit-and-run, reported brain dead. (Graphic video)
BEIJIING — Several dramatic recent incidents — including one involving a 2-year-old girl run over in the road while more than a dozen bystanders ignored her plight — have opened a searing debate in China over whether, in the race to get rich, the country might have lost its moral bearings.
The little girl, Yueyue, who was critically injured and remains in a coma, was run over last Thursday by two vehicles as a gruesome video recording captured 18 people walking or driving by who did not intervene. What most shocked many was that this was just the latest example of Chinese passersby who declined to help others in distress.
In the case of the toddler, the driver who first hit her said in a telephone interview with a Guangdong television station that he had been talking on his phone when the girl walked in front of his vehicle. He said he kept driving because if she were dead, it would only cost him 10,000 to 20,000 renminbi ($1,500 to $3,000), but if she were alive, he would have to pay hundreds of thousands of renminbi in medical bills.
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