Inquirer News is reporting that the little girl, named Yue Yue, was first hit by a van whose driver is seen stopping to look, but then driving on, with the rear wheels of his vehicle running over the tiny victim. Dozens of people are seen walking past, and even around the bloodied girl, who was then run over by a second vehicle.
The official Xinhua news agency reported that a female trash collector finally came to the child's aid, moving her to the curb, shouting for help and trying to find her parents in the nearby shops. She was even told to "mind her own business" by pedestrians who continued to ignore the girl. The good samaritan finally managed to track down the girl's mother who took her to a nearby hospital.
The horrific incident, which was shown first on a local TV station and then the internet, has started a social media brushfire with one person writing on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter: “This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn’t be treated so heartlessly.”
Some are blaming the incident on a disturbing trend that is sweeping the country where good samaritans are being extorted by the people they try to help, with judges too often backing the victims rather than those who help.
One person tweeted that he would also have ignored Yue Yue. "Would you be willing to throw your entire family's savings into the endless whirlpool of accident compensation? Aren't you afraid of being put into jail as the perpetrator? Have you ever considered that your whole family could lose happiness only because you wanted to be a great soul?" he wrote.
But others see the growing indifference to human life as a sign that the country is reaching a new moral low.
"Where did conscience go … What has happened to the Chinese people?" wrote one Chinese blogger.
Meanwhile, doctors declared Yue Yue to be braindead on Sunday evening and say she is unlikely to survive the ordeal.
Xinhua is now reporting that police have detained the drivers of both vehicles involved in the accident.
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