Siblings from Hunan Subjected to Long-Term Abuse by Stepmother and Biological Father, Forced to Eat Feces, Burned on Genitals, and Scavenged Trash for Food! Biological Father Threatens Teachers and Neighbors to "Mind Their Own Business," Biological Mother: Children Only Revealed Their Ordeal After Confirmation They Wouldn't Be Sent Back

Demons! The siblings were abused by their stepmother and biological father, and the two have now been prosecuted!

“My son and daughter have been abused by their stepmother for a long time, especially my youngest son, who was only 5 years old (at the time), was scalded by his stepmother with hot water, forced to eat stool, often beaten and bruised, not eaten, and the child was hungry to go to the trash can to find something to eat…”

Talking about what happened to her children, Ms. Ding (pseudonym) from Xianning, Hubei Province couldn’t cry silently.

Ms. Ding told Elephant News that in 2011, she married Wugang City, Hunan Province, married Peng and had three children, and divorced in 2019. At the time of the divorce, her son Xiao Yuanbao (pseudonym) was only a little over a year old, and Ms. Ding took him back to Hubei to raise him before sending him back to Hunan after he was 3 years old. The eldest daughter, Xiaoya (pseudonym), has been living with Peng.

During this period, Ms. Ding’s ex-husband Peng and Liu remarried and had a son.

Ms. Ding went to Hunan to visit her children many times but was refused, and it was not until she broke into the school to see the children that she found out that they were being severely abused.

See your child again after five years

The mother was instantly heartbroken

“The entire right auricle is bruised, the forehead is swollen with a large bag, and when I pull open the clothes, the body is blue and purple, and the arms, back, and legs are all traces of being beaten.” The tragic situation of her son at that time made Ms. Ding collapse and cry, “In addition to being covered in scars, my whole body was stinky, my hair was so dirty that it was glued into pieces, and a few hairs were cut off to expose my scalp.” ”

“At that moment, I understood why the child’s father and stepmother threatened and obstructed me in every possible way when I came to visit, and they didn’t let me see the child.”

Ms. Ding immediately called the police, and did not hesitate to transfer the joint property of the couple that was agreed to be left to her son at the time of divorce to her ex-husband, and exchanged the custody of the child on this condition.

When Ms. Ding took her child to the hospital to treat her wounds, the doctor repeatedly said how to beat her so hard, which was illegal! It is recommended that she must take her children for an injury appraisal.

The appraisal certificate issued by the Wugang Municipal Public Security Bureau showed that the doctor diagnosed and measured the bruising area of the child’s body surface to 4,522 cm², while the total area of the small ingot’s body surface is about 9525cm² 。 The bruising area exceeds 47% of the total area of the child’s body surface!

According to relevant laws and regulations, a contusion area of 3.6% on the body surface constitutes a minor injury of the second degree. The appraisal result is that the injury constitutes a minor injury of the second degree, and it is suspected of intentional injury.

The mother became more and more devastated:

The bruises all over the body are just the tip of the iceberg

Ms. Ding told the Elephant News reporter that when she first saw the child, Xiao Yuanbao no longer remembered her mother, and after a period of repeated confirmation: “Mom, you won’t send me back again!” The children told their experiences one after another.

"Not only was he humiliated and beaten, starving and freezing, but the child was often locked in a hut by his stepmother, and the toilet was not allowed to go. Once the child made the stool in his mouth and all over his body, the stepmother deliberately turned the water heater to the highest temperature of 70 degrees and rushed at the child’s lower body, and the child’s genitals and testicles were seriously burned, and I am still worried that it will affect his future children. Ms. Ding said indignantly, this stepmother’s occupation is still a nurse in the hospital burn department, how could she not understand what kind of harm this will cause to the child? She did it on purpose!

Now the eldest daughter Xiaoya, who is also received by her biological mother in Hubei, said, “At that time, my brother was so burned that he lay on the bed for a few days and couldn’t move, and his lower body was swollen so much.” Xiaoya gestured in a big circle with both hands to describe to reporters.

My sister had a stitch on her head

The younger brother picked up the trash can to find food to satisfy his hunger

From Xiao Yuanbao’s story, Ms. Ding learned that her eldest daughter Xiaoya was also abused, and she immediately came to Wugang, Hunan Province again to seek help from the local women’s federation and civil affairs department.

In July 2025, the Wugang Civil Affairs Bureau and Ms. Ding signed an entrusted guardianship agreement, entrusting the custody of their eldest daughter Xiaoya to Ms. Ding.

Xiaoya is 15 years old this year. She told reporters that she had been abused for a longer time, and after her father and stepmother remarried, she was still in elementary school, and she was forced by her stepmother to take on almost all the housework, and she had to get up at half past five every day to work, and she was not allowed to wash the family’s clothes in the washing machine, but could only wash them by hand. The stepmother beat her at the slightest dissatisfaction, and she used whatever she had at hand, sometimes in front of her father, sometimes she dragged her hair and dragged her to the room to beat, and her father didn’t care when she saw it. Once a few grains of rice fell on the ground and were not swept clean, and the stepmother smashed her head with a dustpan, and the blood soaked most of her hair. She ran to her classmate’s home in the community for help, and it was her classmate’s family who took her to the hospital for more than a dozen stitches to stop the bleeding.

Xiaoya said that she is older, and she also knows how to look at her stepmother’s eyes, her younger brother was first fostered in her grandfather’s house in the countryside, and she was only 5 years old when she was taken back to Wugang’s home, ignorant, and beaten even harder, and often saw her stepmother beating her younger brother with various things, even wrenches, and sometimes she would carry her brother’s legs, head down and smash them to the ground, and there was a bulge on her brother’s forehead that has not disappeared to this day.

In addition to the obvious bulge on his forehead, the reporter touched Xiao Yuanbao’s head, and many uneven scars could be clearly felt under his hair.

The abuse in life is equally shocking. Xiaoya and Xiao Yuanbao both said that they often only eat one meal a day, and it is okay when they go to school, and there is lunch at school, but the stepmother often does not allow Xiao Yuanbao to eat lunch at school, as long as the child’s campus card has a dining record, he will be beaten when he goes home.

The school teacher has also repeatedly found that Xiao Yuanbao was beaten and other abnormal situations, and contacted the child’s father, but the father replied: “My own child, I can discipline him as much as I want, no one can control it.” He also threatened the teacher not to meddle in his own affairs, and then the teacher found that the child was beaten even worse. The school also reported the situation of the child being beaten and having no food and clothing to the local women’s federation, and the women’s federation talked to the parents, so the child would be beaten again. Some neighbors who see their children starving and freezing will also be noisy by the child’s father, warning them not to meddle in their own affairs.

The two children recalled that what they were most afraid of was that during winter and school holidays, there were no thick clothes in winter, only single clothes and shoes, and it was very cold and difficult to endure. During the holidays, they will be locked up at home all day, fathers, stepmothers and their children go out to eat, the family does not let go of food, sometimes very hungry, Xiao Yuanbao secretly runs to the community to pick up the garbage bin to find food, the sister is embarrassed to go, Xiao Yuanbao takes the food he picks up home and eats with his sister.

Many neighbors in the community have also confirmed this, many of them have seen Xiao Yuanbao picking up garbage cans everywhere in search of food, and sometimes at 12 o’clock at night, they have seen children picking up garbage cans.

Public security organs investigate and collect evidence

The details of the child’s abuse are confirmed one by one

Ms. Ding said that knowing the various abuses her children had suffered, she was determined to seek an explanation for the children no matter what, and reported the situation to the political and legal organs in Wugang, Hunan Province many times.

After investigation and evidence collection by the Wugang Municipal Public Security Organs, the Wugang Municipal Procuratorate approved the arrest of his biological father Peng and stepmother Liu on suspicion of intentional injury and abuse, and filed a public prosecution with the local court.

In the indictment, the reporter noted that the biological father and stepmother were both the principal offenders of intentional injury, and in the crime of abuse, the stepmother was the principal offender and the biological father was the accomplice.

The facts of the crime listed in the indictment include: “Abuse from 2020 to April 2025; The victim has been in a sloppy and hungry state for a long time, wearing thin clothes in winter and rummaging through trash cans for food many times; The biological father and stepmother repeatedly beat and insulted him by slapping him, hitting him with a broom handle, and smashing him with a hair dryer; my sister was bleeding on the head and went to the hospital for stitches; deliberately using hot water of about 70 °C to seriously burn the lower body of children who are still in kindergarten; asked to dispose of the feces in the room, and the child smeared the on his face and mouth…”

The reporter contacted the lawyer hired by the child’s biological mother, and the lawyer said: The facts of abuse stated in the indictment are only the worse part of the nature, and in the investigation and evidence collection of the public security organs, there are too many ways and details of the child’s abuse, and the reasons for the length cannot be listed one by one, and the details and methods of these abuses are also unbelievable and unacceptable.

The lawyer said that the local court has already held a trial, and they are waiting for the verdict, and the whole society should have a zero-tolerance attitude towards the crime of abusing minors.

Mother’s worries:

Physical injuries can be treated, and heart injuries are difficult to heal

After Ms. Ding took Xiao Yuanbao and Xiaoya back to Hubei, she took good care of them, and most of the scars on the children’s bodies have been slowly eliminated, and the people have obviously gained weight. When chatting, the reporter could also feel that the two siblings had gradually shown the intelligence and cheerfulness that children should have, but Ms. Ding was still not relaxed at all.

She told reporters that there are still many differences between Xiao Yuanbao and normal children, they can’t study, and their grades are extremely poor; In the past, because I was too sloppy, I didn’t have a friend, and when I entered a new school after arriving in Hubei, I didn’t get along with my classmates. “If you have nothing to do, you will run around the community to find some hidden corners to hide in, and he always says that it is the safest place.” Ms. Ding also observed that her child would only cry silently when she encountered many things, and now she has been living in Hubei for almost a year, and she has to cry at least once a day, and the doctor suggested that she take her child for psychological examination and treatment.

Sister Xiaoya’s condition is also not optimistic. Before her father and stepmother remarried, Xiaoya was a proper “primary school bully”, with grades never in the top three in the class, and also won the second prize in the provincial and municipal novel essay competition. But her stepmother only let her do housework, not let her study, and when she saw her reading her homework, she would beat her, and tore off her textbooks and homework. Now that I have transferred from Hunan to Hubei, the textbooks in different provinces are different, and my grades are at the bottom of the class, and I can no longer arouse my interest in learning. Seeing that there is no hope for high school this year, Ms. Ding has no bottom in her heart about how to go in the future.

Life is not just about harm

People who are not relatives and friends give help to the children

During the interview, the reporter learned that there were not a few people who reached out to the two children, and the children also mentioned many times that many well-wishers had given them warmth and help.

In the community where two children once lived in Wugang City, Hunan Province, several aunts and sisters mentioned to reporters that when they saw their children picking up garbage cans to find food, neighbors sometimes took their children to a restaurant for a meal, or took the children to their own homes for dinner. There is an old man next to the community, and the owner of a small auto repair shop often cooks for the children. When her sister Xiaoya was very hungry, she would go to the small supermarket near the community to buy eggs and other food on credit, and the boss never refused. Xiao Yuanbao sometimes secretly took takeaway from the door of the community when he was hungry, and the security guard at the gate did not criticize him, and silently paid out of his own pocket to help him pay for the takeaway many times…

But the help of well-wishers has not been able to prevent the harm that occurs within the family.

Ms. Ding said that in the process of protecting her children’s rights, she also learned that she is not the only family that cannot properly solve the problem of raising children after the marriage breaks down.

Source: Elephant News Editor: Jiang Yulu