From ifeng
February 1, 2010, in Beijing FangShan Liangxiang (房山区良乡), west of Huaguan Shopping Center, in fear of losing his son, a motorcycle driver tied his son to a pole with a iron chain.
A two-year-old kid, nicknamed Golden Egg, stood on the roadside with his feet tied by a two meter long iron chain. His father, Chen Chuanliu, is a driver and his mother Yang Caihong makes a living by selling garbage bottles. As they both worked, no one could take care of the kid, therefore, they chained him to a pole.
Chen explained he had to do so because his four-year-old daughter was lost due to his negligence, and his wife Yang, who suffered from mental disorder, was not capable of taking care of the child.
Two meters away from the place where Chen parked his motorcycle waiting for passengers, his boy was drinking cold milk from a dirty bottle under a road sign. Occasionally, Golden Egg smiled at those who called his nickname. His right ankle was tied to one side of the iron chain, the other side of which was fastened to a post.
Chen drove passengers away every ten minutes and left Golden Egg alone. “Half a month ago, my daughter was lost.” He said, “That morning I could still see her playing on the curb, but in the afternoon she was gone and never come back again.”
A vendor working nearby surnamed Lu said, Yang, Golden Egg’s mother, always wet her own pants unconsciously and was not in a good mental state to look after the child. Recently, she kept muttering her daughter was lost. A driver mentioned Chen started tying his child here about four days ago, and took him home when he finished work.
Golden Egg and his mom
Chen said he came from Sichuan and had no relatives in Beijing, and he couldn’t afford to send the child to kindergarten with his low income. Chen thought it would be better to tie up his son than lose him.
Some suggested Chen to send the child to an orphanage but he was not willing to be separated from his son.
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