Baby Murdered in China

This article is reported out of China, where a baby was found murdered in a car. A man confessed to stealing the car and strangling the child. He buried the corpse in snow. This prompted a wave of reaction on the internet in China. An extensive manhunt was lead as an attempt to find the baby and the community came together for a candlelit vigil. There were many mixed emotions from sympathy to angry debaters about this crime.Parenting, capital punishment and media censorship was the main topics highlighted in this article.

                                                                                                           

The report points out how the people used blogging websites to debate about whether the parents should be partially responsible for losing their child and the killer should be executed. The parents should be punished for neglect of child and the man should be put away from society but not capital punishment. Automobiles dealerships used the lost baby picture to advertise their GPS product as a way to guarantee peace of mind to their customers. The government was blame also for having strict laws that makes life intense in China. As mentioned in class and on the last discussion board, the media influence and use propaganda to instruct criminals to commit crime in my perspective. According to official statistics, China's homicide rate is 0.8 cases per 100,000 people that are among the lowest in the world. A sociology professor in Beijing believes that

Widespread desperation is caused by China's growing wealth gap, rampant corruption and environmental degradation which are raising crime. Many social conflicts arise everyday but unless people in China restore to equality, peace and unity, the division of power and conflict will threatened their country forever.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/murder-baby-stolen-suv-china

Courtney Lyons

March 08,2013 1:32am