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Jane Li

A mother in central China locked her noisy toddler son inside a cage for dogs so she could continue to play mahjong, Chinese media reported.
However, the 35-year-old woman, from Daweishan county in Liuyang, Changsha, Hunan province, told local broadcaster Hunan Economic TV that she had placed her three-year-old son inside the empty cage on a street only “briefly”.
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She also denied claims by witnesses that she had locked her son inside.
Other children were responsible for locking the cage door, she said.
The woman, surnamed Jiang, also denied that at the time she had been playing mahjong – traditional Chinese game of strategy that usually features four people using 144 tiles containing Chinese characters and symbols.
“I just put him in there for a while, [but] I was not doing this for real.” Jiang was quoted as saying in the report.
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She also added that she would never put her son inside a cage again.
A resident who witnessed the incident said the toddler had been “extremely noisy” while his mother was playing mahjong, so she had locked him inside the cage.
Some residents said they saw the boy locked inside the cage and had felt sorry for him.
Residents were quoted in the report saying that Jiang and her son lived about 1km away and would visit the street where she often played mahjong with others.

Jiang had moved with her son to Liuyang after all the other members of her family had died, leaving just the two of them, the report said. She and her son now lived with a local resident.
Local government officials said they would contact police and examine Jiang’s family situation to see if she qualified for welfare support.
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Reports are common of children in rural China being locked up in cages or tied to trees by their parents or guardians because of the lack of adequate child care facilities and manpower.


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Noisy Chinese toddler ‘locked in dog cage by mother so she can play mahjong’

The three-year-old toddler was reportedly locked inside the dog cage by his mother on a street in Liuyang because he was being too noisy while she played mahjong. Photo: Hunan Economic TV

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Woman, 35, tells television report she put her son into cage in Liuyang only ‘briefly’, but denies locking him inside or playing mahjong at the time
