Chinese Toddler Run Over: Wang Yue's Condition Unclear (VIDEO)

Chinese and international media are issuing conflicting reports regarding the prognosis of Yue Yue, the two-year-old girl in China who was run over twice and left to die while no fewer than 18 bystanders passed her without coming to her aid.

The Shanghai Daily's report that the toddler had succumbed to her injuries turned out to be untrue, and other outlets note that she is "fighting for her life" and "showing signs of stability."

The Associated Press explains that last Thursday's incident has left many in the country -- and throughout the world -- outraged:

A closed-circuit television video obtained by state media shows the toddler wandering along a narrow market street in the city of Foshan when she is struck by a van. As several people walk or cycle by, the child lies in a pool of blood and is then hit by another van. All told local media count 18 people passing by before a trash collector finally picks up the child and gives her to a woman identified as her mother.

Dr. Wen Qiang, a doctor at the hospital treating the girl, said her condition is "very grave," according to a BBC translation in the above video. "When she arrived here, she couldn't breathe on her own."

The Associated Press notes that Chinese state media said the toddler, whose full name is Wang Yue, is in a coma and in critical condition.

"The patient largely fits the criteria of brain death," Wang Weiming, the head of neurosurgery at the hospital in Guangzhou, told a local newspaper, according to The Telegraph. "But her limbs are relatively sensible to a pain reflex, so she cannot be determined as brain-dead."

China Daily, an English-language newspaper, reported on Tuesday that a local paper said she was "showing signs of stability":

After two and a half days of treatment, good news came Monday morning that Yue Yue has regained the ability to take weak breaths with the help of respirator. The rest of her condition, including blood pressure and heart beat, shows signs of stability. However, the child's life is still in danger and she hasn't recovered the ability to breathe upsupported, reported Guangzhou Daily.

The latest update from The Telegraph, however, is that Yue Yue, who's on life support, underwent emergency surgery on Wednesday morning.

But the little girl's family has not given up hope.

"Yue Yue won't disappoint everyone," Qu FeiFei, the girl's mother, told CNN. "I know my girl. She's strong."

Comments

[elle m]

01:14 PM on 11/30/2011

I don't understand why people are blaming the chinese for the bystander effect - this is a social phenomenon that happens to every culture of the human race. It is a sad sad phenomenon, but it happens. Anyone remember Kitty Genovese? Kitty was raped, then stabbed over 20 times while the window was open and the neighbors could hear her crying for help. The murderer even left her and came back 30 minutes later to attack the body some more. The attack lasted for a good hour before anyone called the police. This didnt happen in china, but rather the "good ol' USA". Think about it.

[Red The Grey]

08:25 PM on 10/21/2011

RIP little girl. I feel so sorry for the parents. This senseless death could have been prevented

[Scent]

03:25 PM on 10/21/2011

Please folks - chack your feelings. I did three tours in Iraq and the only reason You at home supported that war was that You did not ever see the dead, the suffering, and the mutialted.

If this video makes You shudder - so should every single of almost a million deaths in Iraq. We burned people alive there and YOU were told it was just and we did it to save them from a tyrant. - A tyrant WE INSTALLED THERE. But who made the mistake of selling oil not to America for chump change but to Russia and France for a fair price. Most of You supported that war and it is the same people who now get all teary and sensitive when this toddler is run over.

AND YOU SHOULD BE!!! - But You should also have the same feelings about the ten thousand burned ylive by White Phosphorous in Falujah. We burned toddlers alive there and your politicians told You they were terrorists. - You should have the same feelings about them as You do here. - AND You should tell your politicians what You think about such treason.

[Dan Dolan]

11:33 AM on 10/21/2011

Maybe if it had been a BOY, the child wouldn't have been run over. The Chinese treat little girls like garbage. It is sad, but true.

[Pondo Sinatra]

11:16 AM on 10/21/2011

Everyone of those souless people should spend the rest of their life in prison with no trial

[lioness2656]

12:35 AM on 10/21/2011

This is got to be one of the saddest thing I have ever seen. I will always remember this. Just unbelievably sad. Shame on those people who didn't do anything to prevent this. I hope the driver gets his punishment! Shame on that driver. A hug to Yue Yue.

[NigelTB]

12:28 AM on 10/21/2011

If you look at the video and watch the van drivers hands, you can see a deliberate attempt to run the child over. You can see the driver turning the wheel towards the child. Then to stop and ease the back tire to the child, stop, then peel out and run her over the second time, that's murder. But, in China, baby girls are killed without thought of care. What a civilized country China is. When you see "Made in China" on merchandise you buy, remember it is in blood. RIP.

[icwhite02]

03:28 AM on 10/21/2011

I don't buy "Made in china" items. Five years ago, I started buying everything I need, except for groceries & toiletries, for myself & my kids at local second hand stores Like good Will & Children's Hospital thrift store & American Cancer Society thrift stores. China doesn't get any of MY money & my money stays here locally to help people in my own area! Plus it's a lot cheaper! I save thousands every year over retail prices, & when I buy from a place like Good Will, I'm also helping people who are recovering from substance abuse & homeless get an education & get their lives back on track. It's a beautiful thing.

[angelleslie21]

12:24 AM on 10/21/2011

I feel sorry for the child and the parents. I think this should call to question our own humantity and how we veiw an injured person. I can say I was lucky. As a child I was hit by a car and got very lucky to get away with a broken leg that has since then healed with no problems. The man who hit me pulled over and stayed with me as well as those near by coming to help. The man payed for what my father's insurance did not cover. what I say next is why some don't bother to help. Once I was in the hospital waiting for the doctor a lawyer called my room asking me a 12 year old if I wanted to sue the man who hit me. So many of us are quick to sue and there has even been stories of those trying to help being sued because of a mistake they made. So many don't want to risk that chance. I am not saying it is right or wrong just point that out to help bring light on what is a world wide issue of lack of caring for our fellow man.

[angelleslie21]

12:17 AM on 10/21/2011

I would like to know how the child got away from her mother.

[icwhite02]

03:44 AM on 10/21/2011

Kids do that, they're little escape artists, I know, I have 4 of them. My second oldest was the worst at escaping, or the best, LOL, depending on how you look at it so I got one of those harnesses for dogs & made him wear it so I could walk him on a leash. One day, while walking to the park, an older woman who was walking her dog on a leash said to me, "I'm appalled! Keeping your child on a leash! You should be ashamed of yourself! If I knew your mother, I'd tell her on you!"" & I said, "Lady, I GOT this idea from my mother! She used to keep my brother in the yard by clipping his back belt loop to the dog leash & then clipping the leash to the clothes line to keep him from running down to the creek & drowning! (We lived in the country!) Do you love your dog?" She said "Yes! He's my baby!" I said, "Well, I love my son more than you love your dog, because he actually IS my baby! Why should I take the chance that my BABY will run out into the street that you aren't willing to take with your baby? A huh, I thought so! Mind your own business!"
Now everyone out here in the Seattle area has their toddlers on leashes! Too bad this gal didn't have one on her child, this never would've happened! Let's all pray for YUE

[Darcy LinebeckHoule]

04:17 AM on 10/21/2011

In India they don't have leashes but they have metal anklets with chains attatched.Many have outcried that this is child abuse but if it keeps the child from running off or being kidnapped and sold while the mom is washing clothes then it is necessary.They should consider getting them in China and Worldwide considering the string of abductions.
I also had the escape artists 2 out of 5 boys but they would do it when i was preoccupied or in the middle of the night. Yes i used leashes and put alarms on the doors. When I was a child I used to climb out my bedroom window to go out and play at night and hide behind the food or paper goods in the grocery stores.I drove my parents crazy because I wandered so much.

[HamburgerTime]

10:56 PM on 10/20/2011

She just passed, according to Shanghaiist. Very sad.

http://shanghaiist.com/2011/10/21/hit-and-run_toddler_victim_yue_yue.php

[mistergg69]

10:04 PM on 10/20/2011

I was sick to my stomach after watching the video. Where is the humanity?

[americaisracist]

09:26 PM on 10/20/2011

sad. sad. sad. but the government is guilty, not the people.

[Jene Britton]

08:02 PM on 10/20/2011

I feel SO sorry for the little innocent girl... but you have to ask the question "Where was the mother????"

[Phxgwen]

09:21 PM on 10/20/2011

From what I heard, she and the father were working with the children present. The mother was hanging laundry. An older child accidentally left the gate that should have been closed open and the child wandered out without anyone seeing. They all thought she was there with the older child and safe.

[wakeuprightnow]

07:46 PM on 10/20/2011

Yes it is very sad that this has happened to a young child. When you look at the other side of the coin why is a 2 year old running around by herself? How many times do you see a parent that does not hold their child hand when walking from and to a parking lot? A small child is in the driver blindspot what backing up or even pulling forward.

[tenaclark]

05:52 PM on 10/20/2011

Sick, sick, sick! Are these people even human?

[americaisracist]

09:27 PM on 10/20/2011

i am afraid this is what humans are like. we just don't like to admit it about ourselves as a whole.