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And l hope the question is also raised where were the kids parents. As l fail to understand what sort of parent lets a 2yo wonder off along a busy street by themselves. Yes the drivers are guilty of a crime, the passersby showed a lack of caring and humanity. But the parents are not guilt free in all this it was their child, their responsability to watch over and protect her and they failed and she paid the price.

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It is clear that China need a reform which is based on moral and spiritual values. The communist govt is focusing only on making money and having more power. China will brake down as the Roman Empire.

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I hope they scrutinize the footage and label anyone and everyone who passed by without helping. If they can identify them, those people should be arrested and charged, ESPECIALLY those who stopped to have a look at the girl before going about their ways. At the very least, they should be named and have their pictures published.

realmind: "It is clear that China need a reform which is based on moral and spiritual values."

Perhaps, but then, compared to whom?

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Hu Jun, 24, has been charged with causing the wrongful death of the girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, in the southern city of Foshan on Oct 13.

Burn (*)

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I really hope this awful Hu Jun cops the full extent of Chinese law. It is also to be hoped all those who walked past the poor girl are locked away for life.

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Poor girl! Two of the drivers must be put in jail after being charged and convicted, I think. The cases made me think about Chinese mind toward 3rd party. I read in a book which says,i remember, there are only two aspects in chinese way of thinking, that is, Inner and outer. Inner is the space which a Chinese is involved in and outer is not inner which means the space where one should not be interested in and enemies are living. For two, the area where the girl was run over must be outer, so, it must be none of their business whether she is dead or alive. The way of thinking is quite different from which Japanese has. What they have done is to be blamed and seriously punished. It has no room for argument I think.

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has anyone here seen the video? would it have been possible for the second driver to even see the girl laying on the road? I hope this leads to some sort of good samaritan laws in China. Even if someone doesn't want to move the child for fear of doing more damage, they could at least wave off further traffic and call for help, ffs.

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I don't know what was worse, the guy who ran over the little girl first, or the people that just walked by and did nothing. Horrible....all of them!

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I know how this little girl had felt, lying there and people just passing by. Passing by an injured person as if nothing had happened isn't only Chinese thing. I remember few years ago, when I had an accident in my university and lying injured on the ground, unable to even call for help-so intense the pain and the shock were- what traumatised me for the rest of my life was how several JET teachers just passed by, laughing as if nothing had happened, as if there wasn't an injured girl lying right in their feet. Some of them are probably bashing the coldness of the Chinese right now. Those guys were Americans, they were studying Japanese at my uni, but those people then acted just like the Chinese on the video.

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I have cried about this case. That poor little girl. I hope that this serves as some kind of wake up call to all of us to take a good, long look deep within ourselves.

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