Viral video captures terrifying few minutes as father holds screaming young child upside down by legs from second-floor window. Ignoring shouts from neighbours to stop, he continues to harangue the girl for not peeing in bathroom as she hangs in mid-air. — SCMP
A young girl is receiving psychological support after her father dangled her upside down from the window of their second-floor flat to punish her for urinating in the wrong place.
The unidentified man from Liaoning province in northeastern China shocked the mainland online community when a video emerged of him inflicting the terrifying punishment on his small child.
In a video clip filmed by a neighbour, the bare-chested father grabs his daughter by the ankles and holds her headfirst from the window as she clutches at the wall of the building.
The girl, believed to be around two to three years old, can be heard screaming for help and crying “Daddy, daddy”.
Ignoring her screams, the man continues dangling her in mid-air and warns her not to make a sound: “Why don’t you urinate in the bathroom? You prefer to urinate in your room, right?” he asks her.
When the girl fails to answer clearly through her screams, the father twice demands that she repeat herself as her small body sways outside the window.
He then pulls her up until the girl’s knees are on the window sill.
According to Star Video, the child’s ordeal lasted two to three minutes. The neighbour said he and another resident shouted at the man to stop but he did not listen.
The local women’s federation said it has reprimanded the man and is providing psychological support to the child. An unnamed employee said an investigation into the incident is underway.
The father’s actions have caused widespread distress on social media.
The video had attracted more than 630,000 views and 17,949 comments by July 17.
Many people criticised the man and expressed sympathy for his daughter.
“Oh Jesus, this is so scary! He doesn’t deserve to be a father,” one commenter wrote, while another asked: “Is he really a father? Who would treat his child like this?”
Another online observer said the man was “indeed a beast” adding: “He is the one who should be punished.”
Unusually strict punishments for children regularly spark an outpouring of anger in China.
In June, a woman was so incensed when her son broke his strict diet by eating a piece of cake at school that she forced him to drink a brew of olive, linseed and coconut oil until he vomited.
In November last year, the topic also trended on social media when an eight-year-old boy in central China was forced by his parents to watch television all night as a punishment for watching too much TV. – South China Morning Post
