Heated debate over baby left to die by parents

The plight of a baby suffering from a serious liver condition, who was left to die, has led to heated debate in China.

Concerned public have argued if parents have the right to make life or death decisions for their children.

He Shunzhi, a nine-month-old boy, is lying weakly in a bed surrounded by medical equipment at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.

'Controlling mum killed her children and left them in holdalls in car boot to punish husband for alleged affair'

Fiona Donnison appeared in court
today for the opening of her trial for the
alleged murder  of her two children

A jealous wife murdered her two young children to punish her estranged husband after he met another woman, a court heard today. 

Fiona Donnison, 45, suffocated Harry, three, and Elise, two, when she wrongly suspected her husband Paul had started an affair with an old schoolfriend.

She then armed herself with two kitchen knives in an attempt to kill Paul, 48, and blame him for the death of their children, it was alleged.

But Mr Donnison did not return to the family home that night. The next day she handed herself in to police saying she had killed her children.

Two-Year-Old Dies After Being Left in a Sweltering Van By Daycare Staff

A two-year-old girl was found dead in a day care center van after staff left her inside for two hours in the sweltering afternoon sun.

Jasmine Green is thought to have fallen asleep between the seats on the ride back from a field trip to Chuck E. Cheese in Jonesboro, Georgia.

When the children arrived back at the center, staff failed to notice she was still in the vehicle—and didn’t realize she was missing for more than two hours, as temperatures soared into the 90s.

Her death came just one day after a nine-month-old boy in South Carolina was found dead when his father left him inside his car for four hours.

It also emerged that Marlo’s Magnificent Early Learning Center had been cited by the state before for not properly documenting a field trip, and was supposed to have introduced a proper system by the end of March.

Jasmine’s distraught parents sobbed outside as they questioned how the staff could have left her in the vehicle, where temperatures inside are likely to have reached up to 138F after 15 minutes.

April McAlister said: ‘They left my baby in the van… forgetting that she was in there. I want to see justice served.’

The children went on the trip yesterday afternoon, returning at about 1:30pm.

Staff checked all the children off the van and back into the center – including Jasmine’s four-year-old brother, Savion.

But they left the little girl behind by mistake, and didn’t realize she was missing until 3.30pm.

They immediately rang police and Jasmine was taken to Southern Regional Medical Center, but it was too late.

Jasmine and her brother had attended Marlo’s daycare center since they were babies.

Their father, Checo Green, told Channel 11: ‘My daughter trusted them folks like she trusted me. I don’t know why they would leave my daughter out of all the people when they know her.’

He and his wife are now demanding that the daycare center be shut down.

Mrs. McAlister said the first she knew was when staff called her and said she should go to the hospital – but they didn’t say why.

She said: ‘And when I got there, they told me my baby went into cardiac arrest. They left my baby in the van.’

Mrs. McAlister sobbed into her husband’s arms as she said: ‘They took my baby! She was a beautiful girl. She was so smart and just lovable and playful.’

Mr. Green said: ‘It’s hot. It’s Georgia. Who forgets children in a van? Who?’

Police lieutenant Tina Daniels told Channel 11: ‘Zero seconds, zero seconds is the amount of time a child should be left alone in a car to prevent something like this from happening.’

Officers are investigating her death, but no charges have yet been filed.

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