‘Leave him alone, keyboard warriors’: man in China saves girl from falling off escalator, accused of ‘touching her bottom’
- A man in China who rescued a girl about to fall off the edge of an escalator after she became trapped is praised for pulling her up to safety
- However, after CCTV footage of the rescue emerged, some internet users accused the man of ‘touching the girl’s bottom’ during the rescue
A man in China who saved a young girl from falling off an escalator has since been cyberbullied and accused of “touching the girl’s bottom” during the rescue.
The man, surnamed Ding, was at a Shanghai shopping centre last Sunday when he saw a girl, aged about five years old, holding onto the outside edge of a moving escalator, Jimu News reported.
The girl became stuck in a gap between the handrail and a pane of glass and was left dangling at a considerable height above the floor below unable to get off.
Seeing the girl on the verge of falling, Ding helped pull her to safety. While lifting the girl over the edge of the escalator he placed one hand on the back of her upper legs and lower buttocks to support her weight and held her arm with his other hand as he lifted her to safety.
“It’s a good deed to save people. But is it appropriate to touch a girl’s private part?” wrote one person on Weibo.
“Don’t you see there’s something wrong with where he put his hand?” another user questioned.
