Police look for eye-gouge motive

By Zhang Zhilong Source:Global Times Published: 2013-9-5 23:28:01

 

Local police in Linfen, Shanxi Province, confirmed to the Global Times Thursday that they have launched a follow-up investigation to try to find the motive of the suspect who gouged out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.

The response came after local police identified following a series of laboratory tests that the suspect, who committed suicide by jumping into a well after the attack, was the boy's 41-year-old aunt, Zhang Huiying.

"The Ministry of Public Security and the provincial public security department have paid great attention to the case," an unnamed press officer with the local police, told the Global Times, hoping that media outlets would pay more attention to the situation of the boy, instead of the case.

The provincial authority on Wednesday also released details of the case, which occurred on August 24 in Fenxi county.

Bloodstains from the boy, Binbin, were found on Zhang's clothes through DNA tests.

"The blood was left when the victim was struggling during the attack," said Han Zhihui, a police officer in Linfen, adding that the police got the purple-colored clothes on August 30, and found 10 spots of blood.

The possibility that the bloodstains were left when Zhang was trying to help the victim with other people was also ruled out. After interviewing 12 people who participated in the rescue, it was confirmed that Zhang was not at the scene when the boy was being helped.

Witnesses initially told the police that the boy was taken away by a woman in purple, Zhang Liqing, another police officer, told the Xinhua News Agency.

Local police were reported as immediately identifying the suspect as a non-local woman with yellow hair, something that was denied by Zhang Liqing, who said the case was still under investigation and they couldn't possibly release the suspect's physical details.

"The boy first said the suspect's dialect was similar to that of his aunt, but later denied it," said Zhang Liqing, adding that the boy was not emotionally stable after the attack but the victim later confirmed the suspect was speaking with a local accent, just like his mother.

The boy first told the police that he thought the suspect could be his aunt.

Later the six-year-old rejected that the suspect could be his aunt, as his aunt would not have gouged his eyes out in the first place.

Zhang, the suspect, killed herself in a well in her home's courtyard on August 30, six days after the attack.

Guo's family moved to the county from the village in 2006, and the two families have not had frequent contact.

When reached by the Global Times Thursday, the boy's family was not in a good mood and declined to say anything about the case.

 



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