Child ‘beaten to death by mother over table manners’
- Woman detained in eastern China after allegedly inflicting fatal wounds on her daughter
Police in eastern China have detained a woman after she allegedly beat her seven-year-old daughter to death over her table manners.
Public security officers in Zouping county, Shandong province, said the girl died in hospital at around 7pm on Saturday after being admitted with severe bruising.
The mother was detained on Sunday and an investigation was under way, police said.
According to the Qilu Evening News, the mother beat the child with an iron bar because she was annoyed by the way the girl was eating her lunch on Saturday.
The mother reportedly warned the girl that she would beat her if she continued to eat slowly and, after several warnings, asked her husband to leave the room.
“I did not dare to stop my wife. She also hit me when I tried to stop her from beating the child,” the father was quoted as saying.