China Toddler Run Over Twice Declared Brain Dead, Driver Was on Mobile Phone (VIDEO)
A two-year-old in China who was ran over twice last week has been declared clinically brain dead.
The child, Yue Yue, was hit by two hit-and-run drivers on a narrow street in Foshan, a city in Southern China.
Eighteen people walked, cycled, or drove by the baby as she lay wounded in a busy market.
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On Tuesday, it was reported that Yue Yue was showing signs of a recovery, but on Wednesday she was said to be "in a deep coma and clinically brain dead" by doctors.
Qu Fei Fei, the mother of the child, told her daughter: "Don't give up on mum, mum is not giving up, let mum have one more chance to love and spoil you."
Now she faces the painful decision of whether to take her daughter off life support or keep her daughter alive.
The incident was caught on camera and has sparked an international furor over the status of China's society.
Many people are using the accident to point out all that is wrong with modern China.
President Hu Jintao is in his final year in office and one of his campaign slogans was to build a "harmonious society."
In the video that sparked global rage, Chen Xianmei, 58, moves the baby to safety, becoming an instant symbol of modest civility and has now been touted as one of the few true Good Samaritans left in China.
Xianmei was offered $3,135 from two government offices in Guangdong province where the hit-and-run occurred.
“I didn’t think of anything at the time,” Xianmei said in news reports Sunday. “I just wanted to save the girl.”
Both drivers who hit Yue Yue have been arrested and have said they didn't see the baby in the "dark street."
One driver allegedly just broke up with his girlfriend and was on his cell phone, according to the Daily Mail report.
