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Chinese Toddler Left Bloody in Hit-and-Run Dies of Injuries

BEIJING (AP) — A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street died Friday a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching over declining morality in China.

The Guangzhou Military District General Hospital said that the 2-year-old girl, Wang Yue, died shortly after midnight of brain and organ failure. “Her injuries were too severe and the treatment had no effect,” intensive care unit director Su Lei told reporters.

The plight of the child, nicknamed Yueyue, came to symbolize what many Chinese see as a decay in public morals after heady decades of economic growth and rising prosperity.

Gruesome closed-circuit camera video of last Thursday’s accident, aired on television and posted on the Internet, showed Yueyue toddling along the hardware market street in the southern city of Foshan. A van strikes her, slows and then resumes driving, rolling its back right wheel over the child. As she lays with blood pooling, 18 people walk or cycle by and another van strikes her before a scrap picker scoops her up.

See the video in our original report by clicking here.

Yueyue’s death touched off another round of hand-wringing about society and personal responsibility. Many comments posted to social media sites said “we are all passers-by.”

Li Xiangping, a professor of religion at Huadong University, said on a Twitter-like service that it is too easy to blame others. “What after all prompted such a sad phenomenon? Officials? The rich? Or is it our own cold-heartedness?” Li said on Sina Corp.’s Weibo.

Police have detained the drivers of both vans on suspicion of causing a traffic accident but have not said what formal charges they would face and if manslaughter would be among them now that the girl has died.

The people who could be seen on the video passing by the injured Yueyue have recounted being harassed for ignoring her. The respected Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper quoted a man it identified only as a hardware merchant Mr. Chen as saying that he had been receiving crank calls ever since someone picked him out as the 16th passer-by. He said he hadn’t noticed the child.

Some experts said an unwillingness to help others is an outgrowth of urbanization as migrants pour into cities and create neighborhoods of strangers.

“Rapid urbanization not only affects China or Foshan, but anywhere in the world where you have a lot of high-rise buildings, where there is high population density, then the relationship with the neighbors, and with each other is affected,” said Yao Yue, a psychologist and director of telephone help-line for distressed people in Beijing.

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  • PingPongPing
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:30am

    WHERE ARE the Parents???????

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    • mike_trivisonno
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:33am

      They don’t have parents. They are all slaves of the Communist Party.

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    • Applehead
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:09am

      God Bless that little child!

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    • Applehead
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:11am

      This is one of the worst overall stories I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading in my life!!!

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    • mad_hatter
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:23am

      Question is would we do the same thing if it happened in a place like New York?

      We need to find our heroes once again. They have been disappearing and no one is standing up to take their place. Could this kid have been saved if someone had stepped up and saved him…

      Here is a hero I want to give honorable mention, a fireman that caught a kid who jumped from a 6th story burning building: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/firefighter_catches_boy.html

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:16am

      Remember the little four year old boy who debuted on Fox a couple or so years ago? He had appendicitis which the doctors didn’t catch and I believe that he wound up dying..but was revived? At any rate..he recanted a story to his parents about having gone to heaven. His dad, who is a minister wrote a book about it. THe little boy had said that while in heaven, he played with his sister. When his parents related to him that he had no sister.. he said something like “Oh yes I do Mommy..she said she died in your stomach.” THis four year old had never been told this.” So I am encouraged that children who don’t get to grow up here..get to grow up in heaven. Jesus Christ/Yeshuah is Lord.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:39am

      Ashestoashes – you didn’t mean recanted did you? Relayed maybe. Recanted means to take back as perhaps not being true.

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    • MMSands
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:52am

      NHWinter, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Ashestoashes meant to say “recounted”, not “recanted.” Spellcheck wouldn’t pick it up.

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    • zigzag
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:52am

      This is so sad. Come on humans. Wake up.

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    • wesleyapril
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:00am

      Saying prayers for the little angel! She is home with Daddy now – and nothing can ever harm her again. As for the driver, the hit her, then waited to roll over the second time – karma is a witch – and you will pay for what you did to her! May you enjoy enterinity where you are going – and it is nice and warm down there :)

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    • wesleyapril
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:01am

      Mad Hatter – Amen he is a hero – and do you know who started that fire? A Muslime……. :)

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    • mils
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:16am

      such a loss…not only the loss of a tender young life…but the loss of that inner emotion that should make us all tick and care about each other. ..especially a helpless child\\

      The first driver..stopped…backed up..looked???…didn’t get out and help?…disgusting

      I really have no doubt that if this same incident happened in one of our larger cities..the same thing would happen, any moralistic stance on our part is our trying to act morally superior to the “poor, backwards chinese” people…who by the way will probably soon be our bosses and running our country..

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:26am

      What a sad, sad story. May the little Angel will rest in Peace.

      Maybe one reason no one stopped to help is because she

      is a girl. Girls are expendable. Just a thought.

      I hope and pray she was so far gone, she wasn’t suffering.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:33am

      NHWINTER At first I wrote relayed, then I thought I changed it to related…I can’t believe I wrote “recanted.” LOL Thank you for catching that NH…

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:36am

      MMSANDS Depends on how tired I am as to how many mistakes I make. I don’t have office., so therefore I don’t have spell check. Please just bear with me.

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    • onejimharris
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 11:07am

      Her mother was washing clothes she came out and rushed to her daughter. She was very upset

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    • eleemosynary
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Working their a$$ off trying to survive under an oppresive government. Watch the video, the kid was not playing in the street but in front of there open market stall. In America, vehicles would not be allowed to run down the isles at the local farmers market.

      It’s OK though, now the family can try to have a boy this time…unless the mom was paid by the gov’t to be sterilized.

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    • oldschoolgreen
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:03pm

      The parents were in the video. I am glad you never had one of your children wander off on you. You are lucky.

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    • Johnny Cocheroo
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:31pm

      For those asking about where the heroes are – you CAN be a hero.

      Sign up to be a bone marrow donor. Thousands die every year waiting for a donor. I am going to sign up next week. All you get is a little sick feeling for about a week and its an out-patient procedure (no surgery)

      http://www.marrow.org/Home.aspx

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    • random357
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:16pm

      Yes. Where are the parents? Did the parents allow this to happen because she was a girl? Most chinese want boys, with very little desire for a girl. I’m not sure if the 2 child law is still in effect.

      This should be called murder or negligent infanticide.

      Frank Burns writers said it right on MASH “They don’t value life the way we do.”

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  • AmericanWomanFirst
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:21am

    I can’t watch the video. All I can do is ask why. This world is so screwed up. Dear Father, come soon. Forgive us…

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    • Marcia
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:01am

      AMERICANWOMANFIRST – you were wise not to watch it. I did. I wish I hadn’t. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it and crying for this poor child ever since it first aired. May God have mercy on our souls as human beings.

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    • Look for the truth
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:28am

      I have done the same.
      God is so longsuffering to give us and even people who run children over time to repent.
      Gods heart breaks for YUE YUE but His heart also breaks for each person in the video.
      we can be sure the girl is with Christ
      it is the offenders who now need our prayers. (all 18)

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    • wesleyapril
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:02am

      Amen! May He come soon – because this world is going to hell in a hand basket!

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  • Sicialian Eyeball
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:15am

    The soul of all communists is dead. All the way to the White House.

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  • Susie
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:03am

    Why is no one asking about the child’s parents ?
    Why was this “toddler” roaming the streets alone?

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    • Jester311
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 7:24am

      As a father of three, that is precisely what I was wondering. I know kids run off, lord knows almost every parent has had the panic attack in the store. But there is no mention of the parents, before the incident or after. I would like to imagine them looking frantically for her when they realized she was missing.

      As for the driver, how the hell do you not know you ran over something. He came to a complete stop straddling her, so he knew he hit something. Why would he drive off without first inspecting his vehicle!!!! I dont care if it was a dog, cat, sack of potatoes, you get out and make sure everything is ok.

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    • lastoftheamericans
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:43am

      As I understand it you can only have 1 child in china. The victim was probably not the first child and she was a female (they really do not like little girls there) so out of fear of getting in trouble for having more than one it is possible the parents will never come forward. Nevermind the punishment for child neglect or the medical bills (do communists have co-pays?).

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    • oldschoolgreen
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:05pm

      The inconsolable woman in the video is the mother. I am very happy for you that you never ever had a tragedy like this occur to your family.

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  • DEITY
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:38am

    Unbelievable !!!!

    I just cant understand how/why people wouldnt help this child,let alone the van driver not to look and see what he ran over !!!! To top it off she got run over by another driver,c’mon people what is wrong with you doing something like that !!!

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  • watchmany2k
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 5:02am

    I have too may words, and not enough of them.

    A smoldering wick he will not quench,
    A bruised reed he will not break,
    Until he has established Justice in the world.

    Comfort and his peace to this child and those who feel this in their very soul.

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  • Arc
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:52am

    Sad!!!!!!!

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  • Arc
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:49am

    Sad…….

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:41am

    This is what the USA is made up of a neighborhood of strangers. With little care or compassion for any one else it is like the good samaritan the poor man was beaten and bruised while all the people walked by and looked the other way, This child now is with God and those who ran over her and those who ignored her stand in judgement when he returns.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:32am

      And Agenda 21 wants everyone in urban centers and out of the rural areas. This is what we have to look forward to, America, if we don’t stop this monstrosity.

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  • philipzhao
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:16am

    It’s only natural that as a country is striving for economic development and its people go wildly after
    wealth, human morals go down the drain. Indifference is to be found not just in China, it’s there everywhere in the world. Believe me, travlaling in China is not fun !!

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 4:30am

      SHE lived long enough to SHAME a world full of adults. WHAT are we doing? HOW has the world become so awful? THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD WITHOUT GOD LOOKS LIKE and this precious Angel taught us. ENJOY HEAVEN sweet little one, you deserve it.

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    • toto
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:41pm

      Indoctrination to devalue life, and condone abortion, and sometimes late abortion infanticide leads to indifference at best and total lack of respect for life at worst. It is a natural consequence. You can’t have it both ways, life is either precious or it is not. That’s why marxist/communism/socialism is evil. It values the collective over the individual. It really is that simple.

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  • SerikFox
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:07am

    Rest in Heaven, little girl.

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  • Political_Freak
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:01am

    Physically ill when I saw the vid. Now I am just sad for her family. God loves his children and the only high note is that little girl must have a comfortable seat next to our Lord.

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  • Al J Zira
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:46am

    The plight of the child, nicknamed Yueyue, came to symbolize what many Chinese see as a decay in public morals after heady decades of economic growth and rising prosperity.

    What a load od crap. This is typical communist propaganda. When the story first aired people were blaming a judge from Nanjing:
    still alive.:

    The “Nanjing judge” refers to an infamous 2006 incident where a young man named Peng Yu went to the aid of an elderly woman who had fallen down on the street in the eastern city of Nanjing. At the woman’s request, Peng helped take her to the hospital only to have the woman turn around and accuse him for being the person who knocked her down. A Nanjing judge then ruled that “common sense” suggested that Peng only took the woman to the hospital because he was guilty and ordered him to pay her medical expenses.

    So now the media just may pick up the story so they can blame capitalism. After all, that’s what the Chinese are using to advance their wealth and reach around the globe.

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    • BDL1980
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 9:49am

      I noticed the as well they are trying o pin this on capitalism not that communist thought lead to this.

      Also for those asking the parents were just up the street working in their store.

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  • minorityconservative2
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:32am

    I don’t know what her parents were doing but it is easy for a toddler to run off while mom and dad are busy. I don’t believe for one second that she could not be seen by the two drivers. I think they just did not care. Seriously! I really think they did not care. I don’t think the first was going so fast he could not have stopped. And the second knew something was in the road and ran it over anyway. They are heartless and evil. The people who walked by are the same, heartless and evil. This is what the socialists/communists want to make us into. They want to make us only concerned with ourselves. Take a good look America. Decide what you want to be.

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  • Ageneral3
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:01am

    This has been one of the most difficult stories in recent memories; There are human frailities and shortfalls. My prayers for the family.

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  • disagreeableness
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:55am

    < Coward number two, I knew i would cry….and I still half to walk past the bedroom doors of my two sleeping sons on my way to bed…….I have to ask, and I know I'm just going to get opinions (thats ok), would passersby have reacted differently if the child had been a boy, it is china after all…..

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    • BernieKittyCat
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:02am

      That was my first thought! I wonder, did they think, “It’s just a girl?” I’m ashamed for them.

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  • Mimi24
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:46am

    For the family of this little girl I offer my heartfelt prayers. Our religions may differ but the love we hold for our children does not.may God bless and keep you through this tragic loss.

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    • Rubicon
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 2:00am

      Amen. Thank you for a beautiful prayer.

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    • BlueStarMom
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 3:20am

      Amen and Amen. I am haunted by the suffering of this baby. Perhaps her death will serve to break the hard hearts of the nation that allowed it. And open the eyes of the rest of the world who ignore China’s inhumane treatment of their children.

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    • Carol Ingian
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 10:01am

      Amen.
      YueYue is resting in God’s arms now.

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  • conservocop
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:31am

    I might add; the only site I saw that made any mention of this horror aside from the Blaze was CNN. If this had been about animal cruelty, there would have been some headlining on almost every major news site. Thank God there is a heaven where a man named Jesus took this little girl in his arms the minute she passed from this earth. She is now whole once again. I could never watch that video a second time, it was so gut wrenching and disgusting !!

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:38am

      You are right and he does have her in his arms. Glory to God.

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    • Whitey4West
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 8:34am

      It was on fox also…my wife called and told me about it.
      I wish I wouldn’t have watched that video, I’ve thought about it many times over the last few days. May God rest her soul!

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    • toto
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:46pm

      People should be forced to watch that video over and over again and explain to themselves how this could happen, only then will there be a possibility for a change of attitude. We have all willfully had our heads in the sand for far too long. You will always get more of what you are willing to tolerate.

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  • Blacktooth
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:25am

    The little girl died from her injuries. The person in the original van that run over her, he didn’t even have the decency to stop and get out of his van to check on her as she lay on the ground under his van. No, he just continued on his merry way running over her again with the rear wheel.
    What kind of person is this? Unbelievable! All of us are sick.

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:36am

      They might think they got away with it but God saw it all and they will pay someday.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:37am

      A commie………..like the wall-street bunch

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  • NOT A CRAZY
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:24am

    This is from the commie country that our fearless leaders have forced upon us. I am sick of China and I am sick of all of the garbage they send here. The idiots that ran over this baby need to be hung and the animals that passed by her need to be flogged and humiliated.

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    • Amanda G.F.
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:43pm

      You’re right they do. And hopefully they will get their just deserts in this life and in the next.

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  • conservocop
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:21am

    This was absolutely the most horrific video I have ever seen. If ever you wonder if all societies are the same, this video will confirm that a communist society does not have the heart and soul to be found in a Christian society. Every adult, young and old should be made to watch this video. If it does not bring you to tears as it did me, then you have no soul.

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    • Amanda G.F.
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:50pm

      Oh tears doesn’t describe what came out of me when I saw this video. I actually shouted out loud “NO” when the second van came on. I nearly got sick. Then, that night I woke up from a nightmare about it, and I am the type of person that watches movies like “Saw” and other horror movies, and can be totally unaffected, laughing at my friends who get scared or sickened. Never has a video so angered, and upset me. I honestly wish I never watched it. I told my fiance about it, and warned him against watching it, and told him just to take my word for it, that it was terrible. I still want to cry when I think about it, and think about her spending a week on life support. As a nurse I can imagine fairly well what her injuries were. Then read about the woman who doesn’t know where her two month old baby is, who got black out drunk after putting the baby to bed. I really feel ashamed for the world at large.

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  • Mimi24
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:17am

    Nice China. Are you proud now? God bless this baby and hold her close. She can’t be hurt anymore.

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  • Reavin
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:13am

    Few stories have angered me as much as this one. To think that ANYONE could have walked by her and not stooped down to help is deplorable. Absolutely disgusting.

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    • db321
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:23am

      I totally agree – I have only seen this video once and I will never see it again, not will I never forget it.

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:34am

      I am a coward. Couldn’t watch it. But I do know who has that baby girl now. She is not suffering.

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    • Fed up in Bama
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:59am

      It made me sick to see it. The ‘running over’ is one thing, but the way all those ppl just past her by like she was nothing, that was the hardest part to handle. How can anyone be so unfeeling to allow a child to suffer? God help us. May she now RIP. Poor little angel.:(

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 6:20am

      I couldn’t watch it. I have 2 kids and a new baby on the way. There just aren’t enough words to describe how horrible, how cold-hearted, how absolutely despicable and unnecessary this whole thing is. Jesus has that little girl in His arms and she’s now safe. That’s pretty much the only consolation.

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  • sallyminster
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:10am

    As the first commenter…I’m speechless…God forgive us all…

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:20am

      I know what you mean but we weren’t there. I feel so bad for that baby but if you have faith then you know where she is.

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  • ForTheRepublic
    Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:08am

    stupid question, but where were the kids parents during all this.
    or is this what socialism is all about.

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    • db321
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:21am

      Please let just focus on the 18 that drove past a little girl – The Parents are devastated. I have been following the story and the parents are taking it very hard.

      I was deeply disturb by the callus apathetic nature of so many that just drove by and did nothing – This Little Girl tragedy has started a National Movement in China to “Destroy Apathy.” I hope it spread to America. God Bless this little girl and her parents.

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:25am

      I don’t know where they were when this happened. I do know that they lost a child. Some civility would be nice. I don‘t know what it’s like to live there, guessing you don’t either.

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    • riverwomansdaughter
      Posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:55am

      “Where were the child’s parents?” is exactly the question that should be asked. I did not / could not watch the video: the description in this article is enough. But I’ve got to wonder why a two-year-old was anywhere near a street without being supervised by someone.

      Sad, sad, sad beyond words.

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