There is something deeply wrong with how Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials view women. The public reaction to the recent case involving the waitress and pedicurist Deng Yujiao, 21, of Badong, Hubei Province, China, shows the Chinese people know this and are fed up.
On May 10, Deng stabbed with a pedicure knife two local township officials who were alleged to have been sexually assaulting her. According to a brief submitted by her first lawyer, Mr. Xia Lin, the officials Deng stabbed were trying to “pacify” her while five senior officials waited in an adjoining room for their chance at her.
One of the officials Deng stabbed was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital, and Deng was initially arrested on the charge of murder after she turned herself in. She was locked up in a hospital’s mental ward. In a video posted on a Chinese Web site, she was seen tied to her bed, crying in pain. She was initially charged with murder, then manslaughter. That charge was then reduced, in turn, to intentional assault, for which she was found guilty on Tuesday in Badong but then released without any punishment. Read more.