Chinese Teen Killed Over Internet Addiction
posted Saturday Aug 8, 2009 by Scott Ertz
A few weeks ago we told you that China was ending its use of electroshock to treat Internet Addiction. It turns out that is not the only thing they use to "treat" this problem. A 16-year-old boy was killed at a camp in Nanning by three supervisors who beat him to death.
The family of the student is obviously outraged, but not just over the fact that their son was murdered by camp officials. The parents said,
The teachers promised me that they would not use any physical punishment on my son when I dropped him off.
So, the camp was advertising one thing, and doing another. There is nothing about this story that doesn't scream terrible. The worst part of the whole thing is the legal system of China, which gives no real recourse like the family would have in many other countries. They have the ability to protest against the death, but that is really about the extent of it. Not quite the same.