Every baby is a continuation of life, watching them grow little by little, this process has brought a lot of surprises to the family.
Under normal circumstances, the baby in the family will be loved by the whole family. However, Xuanxuan in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, encountered an infuriating thing.
In July 2014, Xuanxuan, who was only 11 months old, was cruelly pierced with 16 steel needles in her body, and her life was in danger.
While people are worried about Xuanxuan, they also hope to catch the murderer as soon as possible. Just when the police were at a loss, Xuanxuan's aunt committed suicide by taking poison at home and was confirmed as a major suspect.
Why did her relatives become Grandma Rong, and even bear to poison her children?
▶ The child cried incessantly, and a steel needle was "grown" on his body
In July 2014, Liu Yuxiang of Liaocheng, Shandong Province, found that her 11-month-old daughter Xuanxuan had been crying non-stop, and she couldn't stop coaxing.
She also found a lot of small red dots on her daughter's body, because it was summer, she also thought it was a mosquito bite, and she didn't care about the child after smearing some medicine.
After a few days, Liu Yuxiang found that the small red dots on her daughter's body not only did not disappear, but the red dots on her buttocks were still a little swollen. She touched it with her hand and felt something hard hitting her hand.
Liu Yuxiang quickly squeezed the small red dot with her hand, and as a result, a needle actually appeared, which startled her. Only at this time, Liu Yuxiang also thought that he was careless and let his daughter be pricked by the missing needle.
In the next few days, she paid more attention to her daughter, afraid that she would be pricked again. Who knows, that needle is just the beginning, Liu Yuxiang actually found three steel needles from her crying daughter, including a hollow medical needle.
At this moment, Liu Yuxiang realized that something was wrong. Ordinary embroidery needles can barely think that they were accidentally pricked, but the medical needles are not available at home, and the medical needles in the daughter's body do not make sense.
Thinking of Xuanxuan's recent unprovoked crying, as well as several steel needles that inexplicably "grew" on her body, she felt that this matter was not simple, but she did not know why these steel needles appeared on her daughter.
Thinking back to the red dots on her daughter's back that had not disappeared for several months, she and her husband Fan Guangsheng decided to go to the hospital to check on the child.
In the early morning of October 20, Liu Yuxiang and her husband carried Xuanxuan to the county hospital. Liu Yuxiang has always felt that these red dots appear on her daughter's body because of allergies, but the examination results have given them a huge blow.
After X-ray examination, the doctor found 12 steel needles in Xuanxuan's body, and these steel needles were still scattered in different parts, and several steel needles were extremely deep.
This was obviously a special prick, and because the needles were constantly moving inside Zi xuan's body, several needles were even inserted into her liver and kidneys.
As for the red dots that cannot be removed for a long time on Zi Xuan's body, it is estimated that it is because these needles are not disinfected and inflamed in the body, resulting in infection in the wound, which will become red and swollen.
The doctor's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day that shocked Liu Yuxiang so much that he couldn't even stand steadily, and Fan Guangsheng's eyes were red.
Usually, the couple's popularity in the village is not bad, and the relationship with the neighbors is also very good. They really can't think of anyone who can be so cruel and poison a baby in its infancy.
The doctor also told them that the steel needle in Xuanxuan's body must be removed as soon as possible, otherwise it will be deeper and deeper, and even life-threatening.
However, the medical level of the county hospital is limited, and they cannot do this operation, so they can only simply treat the wound. The doctor told Liu Yuxiang and his wife that if they wanted to get the needle, they had to go to a bigger hospital.
Liu Yuxiang held his daughter and cried loudly in the hospital, and Fan Guangsheng immediately called the police and asked the police to find the murderer. At the same time, they also rushed home immediately, ready to go to the provincial hospital to have a look.
Xuan Xuan actually had 12 steel needles in his body, plus the 4 steel needles that Liu Yuxiang had pulled out before, for a total of 16 steel needles. Soon, the news spread in the town. When local reporters learned of the incident, they also quickly reported it.
The fact that 16 needles were pierced in the body of a baby girl in Shandong soon became a hot spot on the Internet. Netizens talked a lot, hoping that the police could catch the murderer and severely punish him. At the same time, there are many well-meaning people who are paying attention to Xuanxuan's situation and want to provide assistance to Xuanxuan.
▶ Widely assisted by the community, he went to Beijing for treatment
On October 21, 2014, the couple carried Xuanxuan to Qilu Hospital in Jinan.
After the examination here, Qilu Hospital said that the steel needles in Zixuan's body flowed with the blood, and several needles were already deeply pierced. If the needle is taken, it has extremely high requirements for the doctor and the equipment, and they cannot do anything about the steel needle in the child's body.
Doctors at Qilu Hospital suggested that Liu Yuxiang and his wife go to Beijing Children's Hospital for treatment, where doctors have solved many difficult and complicated diseases, and they may have solutions.
Hearing the doctor's words, Liu Yuxiang and her husband were stunned, and their family lived on farming and did not have much savings. However, looking at the child who originally loved to laugh in his arms, now he couldn't stop crying because of the steel needles in his body, and Liu Yuxiang collapsed while sitting on a chair in the hospital.
Fan Guangsheng was also distressed, and he said to his wife: "Others say that if we can be cured, we will go wherever we want, even if we spend more money, we must cure the children." ”
Soon, well-wishers in the society learned of Xuanxuan's situation and extended a helping hand to their family. On the same day, a raised fee was sent to Liu Yuxiang's hands. In the afternoon, the villagers in Xuanxuan's hometown also enthusiastically donated money for their family. The child's grandfather also sold the family's stored grain and collected more than 3,000 yuan for Xiao Xuanxuan's medical expenses.
In this way, with the last glimmer of hope, Liu Yuxiang and Fan Guangsheng stepped on the train to Beijing.
On October 22, they arrived at Beijing Children's Hospital with the child in their arms, and the hospital also learned of the child's situation in advance and seized the time to arrange an examination for Xuanxuan.
On October 23, the hospital arranged the first ultrasound examination for Xuanxuan. When he saw the situation in Xuanxuan's body, Jia Liqun, the director of the ultrasound department who was well-informed, was also shocked.
He had also seen a baby girl being pricked before, but like Xuanxuan, the number of steel needles in his body was as high as 12, and even he had never seen it.
Jia Liqun made a detailed annotation of the steel needles in Xuanxuan's body, which was convenient for operation during surgery. However, because the steel needles were constantly moving, he only found 11 steel needles in this examination.
Xuanxuan's current situation is not optimistic, there are several steel needles in her body that are superficial parts such as thighs, and will not pose a fatal threat to Xuanxuan. However, five steel needles have been pierced to the important organs, and the steel needles have also rusted, resulting in Xuanxuan's danger.
Surgery is imminent, but to remove 12 steel needles at a time, it is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
The steel needles in Xuanxuan's body may travel to various parts of the body, so top experts from multiple departments such as general surgery and thoracic surgery of Beijing Children's Hospital gathered together to discuss Xuanxuan's situation.
They need to find a suitable surgical plan as soon as possible, and also consider various problems that may occur in Xuanxuan's surgery. In particular, there is still a needle in Xuanxuan's body that has not been found, and the steel needle that will move will endanger Xuanxuan's life at any time.
They overturned one plan after another, but they could not stop because there was not much time left for them.
▶ Four consultations to finalize the protocol
After a whole day of discussion, and four meticulous consultations with Xuanxuan.
On October 25, the top doctors from various departments finally discussed a plan: first remove the needles on the surface of the skin such as Xuanxuan's legs and buttocks, and then make an opening in the body, find all the needles and pull them out.
The surgical plan is determined, and the next step is to determine the time of the operation. Since there was still a needle in Xuanxuan's body that had not been found, the doctors decided to schedule the operation to October 28, and during this time, they continued to perform B ultrasound examinations for Xuanxuan to determine the location of the needle.
On the afternoon of October 26, Liu Yuxiang was finally allowed to visit her daughter.
Since Xuan Xuan was born, this was the first time they had been separated for such a long time. After waiting for more than two days, she finally hugged her daughter, and a long-lost smile appeared on her face, and Fan Guangsheng also swept away the haze on her face.
The doctor informed them yesterday that Xuanxuan's condition is now stable and may be operated on the 28th.
For so many days, the two of them have been working on the floor of the hospital every day in order to save money, and Liu Yuxiang has never left her daughter's ward for a moment. Seeing that Xuanxuan was in a good state, they finally relaxed their hearts and waited for the operation for two days.
At more than 5 p.m. on October 27, after several examinations in the past few days, the doctor finally confirmed the position of the last needle through the B ultrasound, which had swum behind the mesentery.
The positioning of the steel needle in Xuanxuan's body in the past few days is also constantly changing. The operation must be started as soon as possible.
▶ With full cooperation, the steel needle was removed smoothly
On October 28, the operation began, and the doctors began a race against death.
The first challenge before the doctor is how to accurately determine the position of the needle without seeing, and the position of these 12 needles will also move along the muscle space. Fine and accurate removal of steel needles, this is the most difficult.
In the operating room, doctors from multiple departments are ready to take out the steel needles in Xuanxuan's body one by one. The first to play was Zhang Xuejun, director of the Orthopedic Department, and soon, he took out two steel needles on the inner thigh of Xuanxuan.
This good start made the doctors in the operating room excited, and also brought a lot of confidence to the next doctors.
After the four steel needles in the superficial part of Xuanxuan are removed, it is followed by the steel needles in the internal organs. The doctors decided to take the needle in a minimally invasive way, although it was more difficult, but the damage to Xuanxuan's body would be less.
The fifth steel needle adds another level to the difficulty of the doctors' challenge. This steel needle is located on Xuanxuan's liver, and only a small tail is left, once the steel needle completely enters the liver, the consequences are unimaginable.
The doctor stared closely at the image screen, and the tweezers in his hand quickly and accurately clipped out the steel needle, and the doctor present breathed a sigh of relief. After the sixth steel needle was removed, the seventh steel needle, which should have been located near the large intestine, was missing.
This sudden situation made all the doctors nervous, and this steel needle could not be examined with laparoscopy, so it was impossible to determine its position more accurately.
At this critical moment, the doctor quickly made a decision: open a small opening of 8 centimeters, and then through this small opening, put your fingertips into it and slowly explore the location of the needle. Suddenly, his fingers touched a hard object, and after determining the position, the process of removal was extremely smooth.
What scared the doctor was that the steel needle had rusted, and the consequences would be even more serious if it was too late. Time flowed away minute by minute, and the ten steel needles in Xuanxuan's body had been smoothly removed.
The eleventh steel needle could not be found after repeated examination, and the doctor suspected that it had swam to the front of the spleen. Finally, one doctor touched the tip of the needle and quickly removed it after seeing the tip of the needle from behind.
With the full cooperation of doctors from 9 departments, xuanxuan only has the last needle left in her body, and the success of the operation is within reach.
The last one needs to be taken from the back, the doctor first sutured the wound in the abdomen, and then turned Xuanxuan over, successfully removing the 12th steel needle.
When the steel needle was placed on the plate, the doctors in the operating room looked at each other and smiled. This unprecedented and difficult operation was finally successfully completed after three and a half hours of hard work.
When Liu Yuxiang and his wife entered the operating room, they saw the 12 steel needles that had tormented their daughter for so long. To everyone's surprise, the only 2 on the plate were embroidery needles commonly found in the home, and the rest were all syringe needles.
After walking out of the operating room, Liu Yuxiang could no longer suppress the sadness of so many days, and threw herself into her brother's arms and cried loudly. A mother who watches her child suffer but is powerless is not only physically stressed, but also mentally tortured.
These 12 steel needles have been in the body for several months, and even adults cannot bear such pain, let alone an 11-month-old baby.
Fortunately, Xuanxuan's surgery was successful, and after a week of cultivation, Xuanxuan's face reappeared with a smile, and her spirit was much better than before.
The doctor said that Xuanxuan's wound would heal quickly and there would be no major sequelae. On the morning of November 5, 2014, Xuanxuan was successfully discharged from the hospital, and when she returned to her mother's arms healthily, Liu Yuxiang and his wife burst into tears of excitement and kept thanking the doctor.
Just when people were happy that Xuanxuan had successfully been discharged from the hospital, the murderer who mutilated Xuanxuan became the most concerned thing for everyone. What kind of iron heart would poison a baby?
▶ The aunt committed suicide, and the murderer was confused
On October 20, 2014, just after Fan Guangsheng reported the case, the police were also very sympathetic to Xuanxuan's plight and quickly accepted the case.
The fact that Xuanxuan was stabbed with 16 needles by others spread rapidly in the village. At the beginning, some people speculated that it was not the Fan family who had a vendetta against people, which led to the possibility that the enemy would be so cruel to the child.
However, according to the neighbors, Fan Guangsheng's family is farmers, and the relationship with the neighbors is also very harmonious, and there is no enemy.
Xuanxuan's grandmother even said that their family had a good relationship with the neighbors, and if she knew who did it, she really wanted to pick each other's skin.
Some people cast their suspicious eyes on Xuanxuan's grandmother, because Liu Yuxiang gave birth to two girls in succession, will it be the old man who prefers sons to daughters, and will be cruel to his granddaughter. For this speculation, Xuanxuan's grandmother felt extremely wronged.
On October 22, when the reporter interviewed Xuanxuan's grandmother, she said that Xuanxuan was her granddaughter, not to mention that the daughter-in-law gave birth to two daughters, even if there were a few more girls who still loved. Moreover, the daughter-in-law Liu Yuxiang has been sterilized, and she accompanied her to the operation at the beginning, if she still wants a grandson, how can she accompany the daughter-in-law to be sterilized?
Liu Yuxiang also confirmed the matter later, saying that she had never suspected Xuanxuan's grandmother.
On the morning of October 23, Xuanxuan's grandmother and sister were taken away by the police for investigation. The villagers have said that the Xuanxuan family does not have the concept of son preference, and Grandma Xuanxuan is not bad for the two children.
Without enemies and without the old concept of son preference, these 16 needles could not grow out of Xuanxuan's body out of thin air. Suddenly, the police investigation came to a standstill. However, one thing happened quickly to break the calm situation.
On the afternoon of December 24, 2014, Xuanxuan's aunt Liu Hongyun took a whole bottle of pesticide at home, was found and rushed to the hospital for rescue, and later died after ineffective treatment. Liu Hongyun's actions allowed the police to quickly lock her suspicions.
And just when people were talking about Liu Hongyun's suicide, a reporter provided an important clue to the police.
On December 24, when the local media went to Xuanxuan Village to interview, they also went to interview Xuanxuan's grandmother because they were not far from Xuanxuan's grandmother's home.
Liu Hongyun was not at home at the time, and she returned after a while. Liu Hongyun saw that the reporter was talking to her mother-in-law, and she also sat next to the sofa to listen to the reporter's interview.
During the conversation, the reporter said that when the steel needle in Xuanxuan's body was removed, the police needed to remove the needle to retain evidence. Liu Hongyun asked next to him: "If there are fingerprints on the needle, can the police find out?" ”
According to the analysis of reporters, fingerprints may not be easy to check, but the police will have other ways to identify prisoners. Liu Hongyun, who heard this, did not behave abnormally at that time, and during the interview, Liu Hongyun listened quietly.
However, just an hour after Liu Hongyun was interviewed, he suddenly committed suicide by taking poison at home.
According to the police investigation, Liu Hongyun also has two young daughters, and she has not had a dispute with her husband's family, and the reason for taking drugs is not clear. The woman, who had a good reputation among the neighbors, suddenly committed suicide, and no one knew why she was doing it.
Gaotang County police later said Liu Hongyun, who committed suicide by drinking medicine, was seriously suspected. Although Fan Guangsheng said that he did not want to doubt his family, Xuanxuan's affair also ended with the sudden death of his aunt.
Is Liu Hongyun the real murderer? What was her motivation? We don't know.
The only fortunate thing is that Xuanxuan, who had successfully operated, is now growing up healthy and happy. We also hope that this matter will not affect Xuanxuan, and Xuanxuan, who will be able to thrive in the future.
bibliography:
Xinhua Viewpoint: Shandong: Baby girl was stabbed with steel needles, and her aunt suddenly committed suicide
"Life Edge": October baby girl was surprised by 12 steel needles in her body
Dazhong Daily: Gao Tang baby girl was locked by the suspect in the needle prick case: the aunt has a major suspicion
Beijing Evening News: The aunt of the "Needle Baby Girl" case once asked the reporter whether he would leave fingerprints after the needle was removed