Found on bbs.163.com, a concerned Netizen posts the story of a boy who has been chained to his window, naked, every day for the last three years, while his father goes to work. Commenters express alarm and sympathy, but one has to wonder how the kid hasn’t slid out of that chain yet:

[Heart-breaking] the five-year-old boy living locked in an iron chain

A five-year-old boy named Qiangqiang is being locked with an iron chain by his father in a rented house in Liulitun Village, on Yellow River Street in the city of Zhengzhou. Qiangqiang is infected with a disease with strange symptoms. He is always putting his head against the wall. The family has become impoverished, due to the high cost of the medical treatment. Qiangqiang’s mother has left the unbearable situation. And the thirty-five-year-old father has no choice but to lock his son up with an iron chain beside the window, which has been going on for three years.

I think he should be receiving good medical treatment instead of being locked up.

Fortunately, this boy doesn’t look thin and weak.

What if he wants to have a meal? He cannot eat in this way. And why is he naked?

SOME READERS’ COMMENTS:

白吃白痴

可怜的孩子
顶！
Poor kid.
Top!

11721895

哎
Ay!

Bosixue

无奈，无语
helpless, speechless

女光棍儿㊣

呼吁社会的帮助吧。。。
还好，这孩子看起来还不算瘦弱。
Let’s call on society’s aid, perhaps…
Fortunately, this is not a child that looks thin and weak. ❑

— Translated by Ian Yorke

ORIGINAL STORY: 【揪心】被铁链锁住的5岁孩子