Mainland social media has been appalled by surveillance footage of a 14-year-old boy assaulting a 7-year-old girl in the lift of their residential building.
The boy was put under administrative detention by the police in eastern China’s Jiangxi province after the footage was published online and triggered public fury.
The teenager, surnamed Liu, followed the seven-year-old girl, surnamed Wang, into the lift on the evening of November 2.
Liu immediately placed his hand over Wang’s mouth and nose as the lift door closed behind them, choking her.
He dragged her out of the lift after it reached the first floor. Wang’s mother, surnamed Li, said her daughter passed out for a few seconds and began to cry after she awoke.
Startled by Wang’s crying and a resident passing by, Wang released the girl.
