Three Children Left to Fend for Themselves with Mother Detained and Father Driven Mad

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wei Lianhua from Cuihuangkou Town, Tianjin City was arrested by the police in 2008 while she was making leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Baodi District. She is currently being detained in the Tianjin Women Prison.

Wei Lianhua's husband has met with great difficulties since his wife suffered this persecution. Due to the pressure of making a living for himself and his three children, he had to ask the leadership of his production brigade in Dazhou Village, Cuihuangkou Town to return the 8,000 yuan¹ they had borrowed from him and had not repaid for several years. However, the local officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) refused this request with excuses such as "we are running out of money" and "the funds were borrowed by the previous management and have nothing to do with the current management." He ended up suffering a nervous breakdown, with his wife in jail and unable to support his family. He could not recognize anybody and ran around without clothes on. He sometimes would beat people who ran into him, including his own young child. As a result, his children were too scared to go home.

Wei Lianhua's husband has been sent to a mental hospital. However, in the hospital he has experienced a near-fatal heart condition, as well as several episodes of traumatic shock.

With their mother arrested and their father driven mad, the three children are fending for themselves. Their lives and school work have run into great difficulty. Their crops have also been left unattended in the field even during harvest season.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/6/10/202483.html