A Chinese couple have shocked many after it was revealed they locked up their son who displayed signs of mental illness for 30 years.
Dong Hai,46, was caged in a five square metre stone shelter in his parent's back yard when they grew frightened that he could hurt someone.
Dong Watou and his wife Xiao Hong from Longhai, southeast China's Fujian Province said they had appealed to hospitals for help when their only son grew distressed and they feared for his mental health.
They visited hospitals in the province but were turned away. The couple spent all their savings on medical treatment in a year and had to stop their son's treatment.
As time goes on the couple, who are now nearly 70 years old, say their greatest fear is what will happen to Hai when they die.
Hai hasn't stepped outside the bare hut for the past 30 years and food is passed to him through a hole in the wall and each day Hai's father uses a scoop, which is tied on top of a long bamboo pole, to shovel out excrement.Food is served in a tin can and passed through the hole in the wall. Hai receives no physical contact despite living just yards from his elderly parents
(They have been branded inhumane but what would they have done differently?)
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if he wasnt mentally ill before, now he will be
ReplyDeleteexactly
DeleteDo we need to ask where he got his mental illness from?
ReplyDeleteExactly,this is so inhuman!! So wrong the deprive his life
DeleteI dont know what to make of this. They must be rural folks and not city dwellers. So the whole of shanghai and beijing no competent psychiatrist or psychologist? The parents and the whole of china no try for this man.
ReplyDeleteMr anonymous
Ridiculous!30yrs?shanghai and beijing do have qualified docs..they should have put him in a pyschiatric hospital so that he could atleast relate with his fellows..well,they know best.
ReplyDeleteUna mumu ooo. Who said no pyschiatrist in Beijing, the problem is they had no money 2 treat him. They finished all their earnings and savings and that onky got him treatment 4 a yr and he was dropped. Pls peeps should read and think well b4 dropping silly comments. They didn't want 2 see their son roaming the streets or taken into custody by some Govt so keeping him that way was the best they thought of
ReplyDeleteviejos chantas y pencas!! ellos mismos enfermaron a su hijo :(
ReplyDeletewhat is this nonsense u typed?
DeleteMehn, 30 long years of living in Isolation? Feel so sorry for him and his parents
ReplyDeleteKai life imprisonment and what if it was a temporary mental illness?
ReplyDeleteThey better lock him for life because if he is released, he would unleash harm,not because of mental illness, but anger
ReplyDeleteGbam
Deletedis is so sad
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