Chinese boy, 5, abandoned at kindergarten by father after he found out the child is not his biological son
- Father packed a phone and a change of clothes then dumped the boy at his kindergarten and never came back
- Teachers found the family home abandoned with no sign of the boy’s family, relatives contacted by the school refused to come and take him
A five-year-old boy has been abandoned at his kindergarten in China after his father discovered he was not his biological son.
The little boy, identified in local media reports by the pseudonym “Xiao Rui”, was abandoned at the kindergarten last week by his father after he dropped the child off for the day.
When no one arrived to collect the boy that afternoon, staff contacted his parents and relatives, but none of them wanted him back.
The boy’s teacher, surnamed Chen, said Xiao Rui was enrolled at the kindergarten in April this year, and that his father brought him to the kindergarten in Guangxi province, southern China, and picked him up at the end of each school day, the Jiangxi Morning Daily reported.
The father, who was not named, told Chen he wouldn’t come for the boy because he had discovered that Xiao Rui was not his own son after getting a paternity test. The father then told Chen the boy was now the school’s problem.
Chen later discovered that Xiao Rui’s father had packed a change of clothes and a mobile phone in the boy’s bag on the last day he dropped him off.
The father continued to speak to the school on the phone after this but refused to collect the boy. When Chen went to the house where the boy had lived with his parents she found it empty. The whereabouts of the boy’s mother is also unknown.
