Top news reporter Zheng Xu
Recently, some netizens posted a video saying that a woman suspected of being mentally disabled and disabled in Pengshui and Miao Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, registered her marriage with a man at the Civil Affairs Bureau. The incident has attracted attention on the Internet, and some netizens are worried about whether there are illegal circumstances.
On the morning of December 26, the staff of the Pengshui County Civil Affairs Bureau told the top news reporter that the matter was still under investigation. The staff of the Pengshui County Disabled Persons' Federation said that marriage and disability are true, and the county has set up a special team to verify some claims on the Internet.
"She can't express herself in words, and she doesn't understand what marriage and divorce mean at all......" The cause of the incident can be traced back to a video posted by a netizen on Douyin. The woman in the video is suspected of having some abnormal intelligence, and she walks tremblingly, and is suspected of having a disability.
Beside her, there was a man who seemed to be very old, and the two walked into the marriage registration office of the Pengshui County Civil Affairs Department together. At the scene, under the guidance of the staff, the two went through the marriage registration procedures, and the two also took photos of the marriage registration. The video mentions below: "When the staff asked her if she was getting married or divorced, because she couldn't express herself in words, it took nearly an hour to go through the formalities. ”
On the marriage certificate, the man was born in 1972 and is 51 years old this year, and the woman was born in 2000 and is 23 years old this year.
The video sparked heated discussions on the Internet, with some netizens saying: "She can't speak, she can't walk, do you know what marriage is?" and some netizens questioned whether the Civil Affairs Bureau had verified the relationship between the two.
The top news reporter flipped through the personal account of the video publisher and found that there were as many as 100 daily reports about the disabled woman. Some videos also show donations from well-wishers on Douyin. The top news reporter noticed that the netizen's earliest video about the disabled woman was posted in April 2020, and someone asked for help at that time. Journalists also tried to contact the person who posted the video in a private message, but received no response.
The top news reporter noticed that on the morning of December 26, the video publisher had deleted the online video, but was still updating the content of the woman's life.
On December 26, the top news reporter learned from the Pengshui County Civil Affairs Bureau that they were still investigating the matter.
Subsequently, the top news reporter consulted the Pengshui County Disabled Persons' Federation as a volunteer, and the staff told the reporter that the woman in the video does have a disability, and then there is also the fact of marriage, but about some public opinion things on the Internet, they are still investigating and cannot give an accurate answer. "The county leaders took the lead, the Civil Affairs Bureau, the Women's Federation, and we, the Disabled Persons' Federation, all sent people to form a special working group, and today we have already verified and dealt with this matter on the spot. Said the staff.
The staff said that the investigation of the matter will be announced on official channels as soon as possible.