A 20-month girl was found lying in her dead grandmother’s arms in a home
in Hunan Province on September 27 and survived for probably seven days
after her grandmother passed away, according to Chinese media.
Wang
Lichun, 45, was left at home taking care of her granddaughter by herself
in Shuangfeng County, after her husband, two sons and daughter-in-law
moved to Changsha, a city over 1,000 km away, to work.
Xiao Kaiquan, the girl’s father, said that from September 20, his mother stopped answering the phone.
Tremendously
worried, he and other family members rushed home, and upon arriving on
September 27 were shocked to see the little girl lying with the decaying
corpse in the bathroom doorway.
Xiao said his mother had likely
already been dead for seven days. Fortunately, the girl was found alive
but severely malnourished.
She was taken to hospital on September 28 and was under intensive care.
Xiao said that his daughter is still shocked from the ordeal and is suffering from some infections but should recover fully.
Workers
migrating to other cities in search of work have difficulties accessing
services such as housing and education under the hukou registration
system.
This means that children can often stay behind to live with their grandparents for periods of time.
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