HONG KONG: A pregnant woman has faced a massive backlash on the internet after she was caught on a surveillance camera deliberately tripping over a 4-year-old, giving him a concussion.
The woman was annoyed while eating at a small restaurant in Baoji in Shaanxi province, northern China, after the boy ran past her and she was lightly hit by a transparent plastic door curtain, China Youth Daily reported.
The boy passed her again a few seconds later as he was exiting the restaurant and she stuck out her leg to trip him.
The boy fell to the ground and the woman and her husband continued eating, while the child’s mother came to his aid, the footage, published by news website Thepaper.cn, shows.
The boy, who suffers from a heart defect, was taken to hospital and diagnosed with mild concussion after the incident last Thursday.
He is now in stable condition, the report quoted his mother as saying.
The boy’s mother told China Youth Daily: “At first, I thought my boy tripped himself, but later he told me that the woman tripped him, which was confirmed by other customers in the shop.
“I checked the CCTV and was so angry that I called the police,” she said.
The woman was widely criticised on the internet after the footage was published.
“As someone who is soon going to be a mother, this act is really shameful,” one woman said on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. Her comment got over 21,000 likes.
The woman turned herself in to the police for assaulting the boy the day after the incident and apologised. She has also offered to pay any medical fees.
The boy’s mother told the newspaper: “Police said they would detain her for 10 days and penalise her 1,000 yuan (US$160), but she is seven months pregnant.
“We do not wish to affect her. I have children myself. I can understand.” – SCMP
CLICK HERE to watch the video
CLICK HERE to read the rest of this article