At noon on March 12, 2019, a cry for help came from the side of the road in Hetang District, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province: "Help! Who's coming to my rescue! ”
An old lady fell to the ground and cried for help, next to her stood a dazed boy pushing a wheelchair.
There was a loud noise of discussion from the crowd of onlookers.
"Kombat 120 call an ambulance!"
"Who knows this old lady, contact her family!"
In addition to these voices calling for help, there are also some voices speculating about the incident.
"This kid is really naughty, pushed to the old lady, the wheelchair is in his hands..."
"This child looks scared silly, this old lady should not be touching porcelain, why catch a child?" It's not authentic. ”
The story of the child helping the grandmother cross the street is told to almost every parent, but when such a thing really happens, things become complicated.
What the truth is, I am afraid that only the two parties themselves know.
The old man's name was Tang Qiu, who was already eighty-nine years old at the time, while the boy's name was Xiao Hao, who was only 11 years old.
The old lady fell directly in the hospital for 21 days and was also identified as an eighth-degree disability.
On the afternoon of the incident, the old man's daughter reported to the Hetang District Public Security Substation Cimutang Police Station.
According to the records on the report registration form, Tang Qiu said that Xiao Hao pushed down her wheelchair, causing her to fall and cause a fracture.
The police station organized the two sides to mediate, but Xiao Hao's family believed that the child did not push down the old man, and did not agree with the 60,000 yuan compensation claimed by the old man's family, and the mediation finally failed.
In October of the same year, Xiao Hao was sued by Tang Qiu and demanded huge compensation of 178,000 yuan.
As plaintiffs and defendants, in court, Tang Qiu and Xiao Hao had their own opinions.
According to Xiao Hao's recollection, he was on his way to school that afternoon when he heard the grandmother's plea for help.
The other party hopes that Xiao Hao can help her with inconvenient legs and feet, and push the wheelchair across the road.
As a primary school student, Xiao Hao was educated by the school and his parents from an early age.
Naturally, the moral quality of helping others, respecting the elderly and loving the young is deeply rooted in the mind, and it is of course indispensable to encounter this kind of thing.
So he eagerly helped his grandmother push the wheelchair, but pushed it from the cobblestone road to the other side of the road.
Xiao Hao said: "She told me to push, and the aunt of the supermarket opposite helped push together, I can't push alone." ”
Crossing the road, this act of helping others was already over, but there were steps in front of the two of them.
Xiao Hao was only eleven years old, and his strength was not big enough to push him up.
So, the grandmother took the initiative to stand up, holding the tree, and Xiao Hao pushed the wheelchair up the steps.
Who knew that in the blink of an eye, the grandmother fell.
Xiao Hao felt that he was just helping others, and that the grandmother's fall was not caused by himself.
Therefore, Xiao Hao's family believes that Xiao Hao should not be responsible for this, and the claims made by the old man's family are also unreasonable.
But in Tang Qiu's mouth, what happened that day was not like this.
Tang Qiu said that at noon that day, he was eating wontons at a small restaurant near the scene of the incident.
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After dinner, when she was preparing to cross the street on her way home, a mischievous child suddenly appeared.
The little boy saw that she had limited mobility and pushed his wheelchair around the road.
The scene was chaotic, and some pedestrians were almost hit, shouting while dodging to make children stop.
Tang Qiu himself kept shouting for Xiao Hao to stop and stop pushing and playing.
Under the shouts of the crowd, although the little boy stopped, Tang Qiu got up from the wheelchair and pushed the wheelchair to knock her down.
Tang Qiu's family believed that Xiao Hao's greedy play caused the old man to fall and be injured.
Tang Qiu was almost 89 years old, and the fall made her lie in the hospital for 21 days.
The old lady's family was very dissatisfied with this, so they decided to claim compensation from Xiao Hao, who caused all this.
On the day of the incident, Tang Qiu's daughter had already reported the accident of her mother's fall to the Cimutang police station.
So there is the claim and mediation mentioned at the beginning of the article, and the bo court after the failure of mediation.
According to the case-handling process, the Cimutang police station that accepted Tang Qiu's report at that time organized cadres and police to carry out investigation and mediation.
During the mediation, Tang Qiu and his children said that if Xiao Hao's side was willing to pay them 60,000 yuan, they could reach mediation.
Xiao Hao felt that he was just helping others, and he was very aggrieved in the face of sudden changes.
Xiao Hao's parents and grandmother naturally believe in their children and feel that the old man is touching porcelain.
The Xiao Hao family was also very tough on this inexplicable dispute, unwilling to accept the conditions of Tang Qiu's side.
The mediation ultimately failed.
The parties to the failed mediation can only resolve the matter in court.
At the scene of the trial at the Zhuzhou Hetang District Court, Tang Qiu's daughter began to narrate as a spokesperson.
She said on March 12, she received a call saying that her elderly mother had been knocked down.
So she immediately put down her work and rushed to the scene, only to see her old mother lying on the ground, unable to move.
So she communicated with Xiao Hao's grandmother, hoping that she could take her mother to the hospital with her.
But Xiao Hao's grandmother was unwilling to follow her to the hospital, so she called the police, hoping to get help from the police.
After sending her mother to the hospital, and seeing her weak mother in a hospital bed, Tang Qiu's daughter was determined to make the person who caused all this pay the price she deserved.
So she went to the scene of the incident again, trying to find out the truth by asking witnesses.
According to Tang Qiu's daughter, someone in the commissary near the scene of the incident once saw the little boy pushing his mother across the road at a rapid pace.
After crossing the road, the old man stood up, the little boy was next to the wheelchair, and the witness said that because he was working, he did not see clearly.
She also met a man in his forties who said he had only seen the old man fall to the ground and that he didn't know what was in front of him.
However, Xiao Hao said that what the aunt and grandmother said was not true.
I am not playing, and I know that I respect the old and love the young, and I will not push my grandmother's wheelchair to play, and I will not play on the road.
Xiao Hao always stressed that it was the grandmother who asked her to help her push the wheelchair across the road that day.
After arriving across the road, there was a step on the side of the road, Xiao Hao could not push it up, and the grandmother stood up by herself with the tree.
Xiao Hao pushed the empty wheelchair up the steps, and the grandmother fell down herself without knowing what was going on.
In this regard, Xiao Hao did not understand what was happening.
After the grandmother fell, Xiao Hao was frightened and did not know what to do.
The grandmother was calling for help, and an uncle saw it and came to help him help him up.
After the grandmother was helped up, Xiao Hao thought that he was fine and went to school again.
Xiao Hao said that he was just helping others, did not deliberately push down the grandmother, and did not touch her when the grandmother fell.
As Xiao Hao's guardian, Xiao Hao's mother, Ms. Wang, said that such an incident occurred to the child, and she also rushed to the scene to understand the situation.
She heard a woman at the scene say that the old lady was in a wheelchair and had no one to accompany her.
The woman said that at that time, the old man took the initiative to ask the child for help, and when he crossed the road to go up the steps, the child was not energetic.
The old man stood up on his own, leaning against the tree next to him to support his body.
Although the child has little strength and no experience in pushing a wheelchair, the old man did fall down on his own.
Ms. Wang believes that her child is doing well at home and at school, and is a kind child.
Therefore, she believes that her son will not do such a thing as pushing down the old man, because the reason is also to help others, is commendable, rather than being prosecuted in turn.
In order to prove that Xiao Hao is indeed a kind and well-behaved good child as she said, Ms. Wang also found out Xiao Hao's student status information, student quality report manual and other materials.
Ms. Wang felt that this was enough to prove that Xiao Hao was a well-educated student who was studying and would not do such a thing as toppling the old man.
Ms. Wang said that out of care, she also paid 5,000 yuan during Tang Qiu's hospitalization.
Ms. Wang said that she also hoped that the old man could be cured and discharged from the hospital as soon as possible, originally Xiao Hao's starting point was good, and she did not expect that things would go to court.
Children do good deeds but are accused, and as parents, it is really difficult to accept.
The two sides have their own opinions and do not recognize each other's statements and demands.
So how did the court finally decide?
According to the verdict, after receiving Tang Qiufang's litigation request, the investigators went to the place where Tang Qiu fell twice to investigate.
Through field visits, no witnesses were found who could provide effective clues.
Through on-site investigation, investigators found that there was a bank near the site where Tang Qiu fell.
There was a surveillance camera facing the scene of the incident at the entrance of the bank, so the investigators went to the Swan branch of Zhuzhou Rural Commercial Bank to coordinate.
However, the relevant staff regretted that the audio-visual data recorded by the bank's monitoring was only kept for 90 days.
More than 90 days will be overwritten by new data, and the original video will not be retrieved.
The family filed a lawsuit seven months after the old man fell, and the court investigated nine months after the incident, and it was obvious that the scene at that time could not be obtained through monitoring.
The court held that as far as the evidence currently in hand is concerned, it cannot be proved that Xiao Hao really overthrew Tang Qiu and caused his fracture.
Therefore, the court did not support the plaintiff Tang Qiu's claim that Xiao Hao bear responsibility and compensate.
Xiao Hao pushing Tang Qiu to cross the street is an established fact, but there is no motive to hurt people.
Tang Qiu is older, it is not convenient to move, and going out alone belongs to the vulnerable groups.
As an 11-year-old child, Xiao Hao's behavior of pushing him across the street is a social help behavior that produces help for others.
Society should encourage such friendly behavior.
Xiao Hao is a minor, and when helping, he may cause some harm to the helped person Tang Qiu because of his subjective physical defects and insufficient understanding of danger.
But in general, this is based on the act of rescue, not a real act of intentional harm.
In the absence of conclusive evidence pointing to the defendant Xiao Hao's intentions, Xiao Hao's behavior is not legally problematic.
Judging from the court's judgment, we can also infer that Xiao Hao is helping others.
Taking a step back, even in the process, Xiao Hao accidentally touched his grandmother.
It is only that the rescue behavior is not properly grasped, there is no illegality, and such a judgment also well protects the child's pure heart.
I hope that when Xiao Hao faces a similar situation in the future, he will not refuse to help others because of this, and also give good people the confidence to do good things.
In the end, Tang Qiu's claim was rejected by the court.
However, Xiao Hao and his mother, Ms. Wang, still voluntarily paid Tang Qiu ten thousand yuan, and since Tang Qiu had already paid five thousand yuan in advance when he was hospitalized, he only needed to pay another five thousand yuan.
As the case came to an end, many melon-eating masses clapped their hands and applauded, believing that the verdict was very gratifying.
Most people think that the elderly and children are deliberately blackmailing, but fortunately they have not wronged the good people in front of the law.
Traditional virtues make us respond to vulnerable groups in a timely manner.
However, in recent years, such cases of helping people to oppose the defendants have been common.
For example, there was a ninety-year-old lady in Hangzhou before, because she was tired of walking, she wanted to help the electric car parked on the side of the road to rest.
As a result, the electric car fell, the old man also fell, and the treatment of the old man cost more than 40,000 yuan.
There seems to be no other party involved in this matter, but the old man's family initially said that the old man fell down after watching the electric car blocking the road and trying to move the car.
So the family of the old man looked for a property claim, thinking that it was caused by their lack of management, and then found the owner of the electric car to claim, thinking that if the other party did not park randomly, there would be no back matter.
Unexpectedly, there were not only witnesses but also surveillance records at the scene, and the words made up by the elderly family were quickly ruthlessly punctured.
In the end, they didn't get a penny.
The octogenarian woman accidentally fell but blackmailed the kind nine-year-old boy, the old woman climbed the road illegally and fell down, and the boy was kind enough to help but be blackmailed...
These messages emerge in an endless stream, and to a certain extent, people have a fear of "helping the elderly" and doing good deeds.
Morality tells us to respect the old and love the young, but the slap of reality reminds everyone that we must be careful when doing good things.
Since the popularization of the Internet and smart phones, information can be spread more conveniently, and all kinds of news of blackmail of the elderly are often reported in the news.
It is those malicious blackmailers who chill the good people, which has caused many old people to face the situation of no one daring to help after falling.
Many well-wishers even have to take videos to prove their innocence before they dare to lend a helping hand before they do good deeds.
The reason for this phenomenon is nothing more than that people's hearts are not ancient, and they do things that are depraved as weak people.
But who doesn't have an old day? If you stand by and raise an eyebrow, maybe such a thing will happen to you one day.
"He who holds a salary for all shall not let him freeze to death in the wind and snow."
Then again, who doesn't have an old man? If your family is treated coldly, what should you feel like?
Therefore, we should all be more kind and enthusiastic, while maintaining an honest and kind heart.
The author believes that fairness and justice always exist, and good people will not be disappointed.
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Xiaoxiang Morning Post: "Pushing wheelchairs on the way to school launched 170,000 claims: the old man said the child was playing greedily, the boy said he was invited to help"
Henan Business Daily: "On the way to school, the boy pushed the wheelchair to launch 170,000 claims: the old man said that the child was greedy, and the court ruled like this"
Global Network: "Ninety-year-old lady fell and was injured, sued the wheelchair boy for 170,000 yuan, the court: dismissed the claim"