The shock and sadness from the Sichuan quake is still lingering in our hearts and already another human tragedy moves us to tears.

This is the story of Yang Yang, the innocent victim of a horrible crime. At 3am on June 2nd , 2008, a few days short of his first birthday, Yang Yang was found on the street in Chang Sha, Hunan Province, China with 20% of his skin burned with sulfuric acid. Read more...

On Feb 24 at 9:47am, an old man placed a little girl under the wheels of a moving train at a train station in Chongqing, China. The girl's legs were crushed.

The old man was arrested by the police with the assistance of a peasant worker on the site. According to some witnesses, the old man was with an old woman. Somehow, the old woman escaped while the old man was being arrested.

The old man placed the little girl, who was inside a bamboo basket, under the wheels twice. For the first time, he failed. For the second time, the girl's legs were crushed immediately. The girl cried and struggled and managed to crawl out of the basket. When the police came to her, she had lost her two legs and was lying in blood, but her big eyes were still very beautiful and clear. Read more...

A little boy, Minghe Qin, who is only 6 years old has gone through a great ordeal for no apparent reason. On December 1, 2006, when he was 5 and half years old, his neighbor, Shen Zhang, induced him to her house and threatened him that she would harm his mom if he moved and screamed. She tied his hands and legs up and gagged his month with cotton balls to prevent him from crying out. She then threw little Minghe upside down into a hole she previously dug, stuffed the hole with straw stacks, lit a fire, and fled the scene. His mother found him weakly crying out for help and fell helplessly on the ground when her attempt to save him failed. Fortunately, neighbors all came and helped rescued the little Minghe. After being rescued, Minghe’s both legs and 9 fingers had been burned off. On his remaining body, 63% of his body skin was extraordinarily severely burned. Read more...

In August 2007, the head and chest-scalded little boy, Jinlei Liu, and his parents squatted in front of the Red Cross in Beijing, China, waiting for people to help. His head and chest were adhesive together like a meat bun – no neck, right eye was covered by eyelid, and his mouth was pulled down by tight skin. Read more...

You Feng lived with his parents in Dongying City of Shandong Province, China, where his parents worked. On the morning of December 16, 2006, a tragic event happened to him and his family. Their bedroom exploded, due to a gas leakage. His father died on the way to the hospital. He and his mother survived, but with severe burns all over their bodies. Read more...

On June 7, 2007, a mother who took her child to the Pediatric dept. of the Second Hospital of Hua Xi, Chengdu saw a couple begging on the street. With them were their 4 year-old daughter born with blindness and their 2 year-old daughter with Retinoblastoma. The parents said that they found out something was wrong with their older daughter’s eyes when she was 2-3 months old. They took her to see many doctors and went to different hospitals but could not get any treatment for her. Besides the blindness, she’s normal on anything else. Their younger daughter, Yi Jiang, was born healthy on March 29, 2005. However, when she was 14 months old, they found some rice-shaped lumps on her right eyelid. It developed so fast that now the tumor is bigger than her face. The parents have taken Yi to Chongqing Children’s Hospital, Luzhou Hospital, and Chongqing Daping Hospital for treatments. But all doctors said there is no cure for her. This April, they took Yi to Beijing and hoped to get some help from other people. Although they’ve been interviewed by some journalists, they never got any help. They didn’t even get to a hospital before they went back to Sichuan. Afterwards, they went to the two other hospitals but still got the same answer from the doctors. Even so, they still don’t want to give up on their daughter. Read more...