Public callous, not criminal in ignoring injured toddler

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News articles like this make me sick to my stomach.. Makes you wonder about society and how we treat people.. This may have been China but could well have been any of our own cities..

I remember a local little girl ( 3 years old ) being hit by a minivan quite a few years ago.. I don't think they ever found the culprit yet..

Passersby who ignored the sight of an injured toddler in the Chinese city of Foshan may have acted callously, but they did not do anything illegal.

Surveillance video has revealed that more than a dozen people passed by a two-year-old girl named Yue Yue, who was run over by two vehicles and left bleeding in the street last Thursday.

The toddler was eventually dragged off the street by a woman collecting garbage.
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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStorie...-foshan-city-passerby-law-obligations-111019/
 
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I've been following this too. I read that its not so much the fear of prosecution, its the fear that if they DO step in and help, they can be liable for any medical costs etc to the injured person, even when they are only trying to help.
 
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Well here it makes no sense.. We have no fault insurance where medical is covered for those injured..

I think for us it has more to do with invalid insurance, drinking and driving ( yes even early in the day ), deportation of illegals that could be driving and for most just plain fear..
 
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Francis said:
Well here it makes no sense.. We have no fault insurance where medical is covered for those injured..

I think for us it has more to do with invalid insurance, drinking and driving ( yes even early in the day ), deportation of illegals that could be driving and for most just plain fear..
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Believe me, it makes NO sense to me either....but this is China we're talking about. Not Aus or Canada:(...and they DONT have the Good Samaratin act over there.
 
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Francis said:
But I mentioned the 3 year old that happened here which doesn't make sense..
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Sorry Francis...I figured the link would be to the China story, and was comm enting on that. ...

I'll go click it now...

It WAS a link to the Chinese one. I have no idea about the 3 y.o there. Was she left to die too?
 
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Francis said:
The first link is of the Chinese girl.. But I stated at the top that it happened here..

Here is the link ( 14 years ago )
http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=7aa89caa-18e7-4375-978c-9f1fc27e8778&sponsor=
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Hit and runs happen a lot...sad but true...and I think we are on different pages here.;)
I thought we were discussing the fact that AFTER the Chinese toddler was hit...bystanders and people WALKED OVER HER. NO ONE helped her at first. The toddler in your story wasnt ignored by witnesses and bystanders. I dont think THAT would happen here or in Canada.
 
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Reminds me of the story of when the Iranian girl got acid threw in her face and no one would help
 
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I thought you were referring to the China story too.

As a side note back in the 60's my parents were in Acapulco and saw a pedestrian get hit by a car. He was flipped up in the air and when he landed he got up and ran away. They were told the pedestrian is at fault for such an accident.
 
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indeed widespread global comment based on that video will no doubt have resulted inPolice action that otherwise may not have happened
 
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Most other countries and societies are not built like ours. in addition to that there are public fears as described in this thread where liability is a huge concern.


While I can see the outrage on the driver who (could have been unaware of what he hit)... What about the parent? At some point someone has to stop, look back at the situation and pose the question:
Why wasn't the child supervised?
Why wasn't the parent aware for 7 minutes as to the child's whereabouts?

Don't get me wrong, the people who simply passed by are horribly callous... but that is the way that society has been raised. Responsibility should also be put upon the parent not the nearly 20 people that walked by...

This is just my opinion! Nothing else, nothing more...
 
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good lord in these days of everybody having a cell phone, what the heck does it take to make at the very least an anonymous phone call to 911... again I repeat... at the very least.
 
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