Woman pushed by her husband off a cliff in Thailand while pregnant forced to abort child and struggling with severe injuries
- Wang Nan married a man who then tried to take her money through attempted murder, pushing her off a cliff, leaving her with multiple broken bones and other injuries
- She remains trapped in the marriage because a Chinese court refuses to grant a divorce until her husband‘s legal appeal against an attempted murder conviction is decided
Three months pregnant with her husband Yu Xiaodong’s child, Wang hit a thick layer of trees before slamming into a rock in Pha Taem National Park. She lay in agony for half an hour before a tourist found her and she was rushed to a local hospital.
In the lead up to the attack her husband Yu had been pressuring Wang for money to pay his gambling debts, the attempted murder was a desperate bid to obtain her wealth, a Thai court later heard. Wang had been running her own business trading goods between China and Thailand before the two married two years earlier.
Wang miraculously survived, but was left with 17 bone fractures, most of which were untreated at the remote and busy hospital she was initially taken to and have now become deformities; she still has three metal plates inside her body and depends on her parents for support.
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Pregnant woman pushed off cliff in Thailand by husband
She was forced to terminate her unborn baby because of the large doses of medication she had to take following the attack. She has also had to endure one surgery after another and has struggled to rebuild her strength with physiotherapy between operations.
The past two years have been “an endless repetition of surgery and rehabilitation”, said the 33-year-old woman, who made her way home to Nanjing three weeks after the attack in the summer of 2019.
“I have healed mentally, but not physically … There’s such a gap between my mind and body now,” she told the South China Morning Post.
