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A one-year-old boy is "temporarily in stable condition" after he was beaten by a 10-year-old girl and then allegedly fell off from the 25th floor of a building in southwest China's Chongqing City, police and doctors said Thursday.
The baby, Yuan Yuan, has regained consciousness and is in stable condition after medical treatment, but he is very weak and will have an operation soon, said hospital doctors and Yuan Yuan's father Li Shengzhong.
The girl surnamed Li, held Yuan Yuan in the arm inside an elevator at 4:10 p.m. on Nov. 25 in a residential building in Changshou District, according to police investigations.
The grandmother was going outside with Yuan Yuan while the girl, a student in her fifth-year study at a primary school, was just back from school.
Shortly after the grandmother moved a stroller out of the elevator, the door closed behind her, leaving the toddler inside with a girl who had just entered, said police.
Video footage taken by a monitoring camera inside an elevator showed Li assaulted Yuan Yuan in the elevator. She held him for a while and suddenly threw him to the floor. She then kicked the boy several times before throwing him out of the elevator and taking him away.
Li then took Yuan Yuan to her home on the 25th floor and continued to beat him on the sofa in the living room of her house. Then she put the baby on the guardrail of the balcony to play with him. Yuan Yuan then fell down to the ground from the guardrail, according to Li's confessions to police.
The grandmother went to the 25th floor to search Yuan Yuan and met Li who was going out from her home. Li lied to the grandmother by saying that Yuan Yuan had been taken away by someone else.
As the grandmother was checking the monitoring video at the community guard's office, Li found Yuan Yuan lying in the shrubbery near the building and moved him to an alley seven to eight meters away. She then returned home alone.
Li's parents are workers of a chemical company. Li's family members were not in the home when the tragedy occurred. The motive of Li is unclear.
As Li is only ten years old, she will not be detained with a criminal charge, police said.
On Wednesday, Yuan Yuan's parents filed a civil action to the Changshou District Court.
Li's family has paid 78,000 yuan (12,700 U.S. dollars) so far for medical treatment of the boy. Local government has provided aid to the boy and his family.
The case shocked the nation and is currently one of the most talked about topics on the Web, with many praying for the recovery of the boy.
