Text: Pai Daxing
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It's hard to imagine that the Shawshank redemption will really be staged in real life,
In 2018, a young girl in Hunan escaped from an 8-foot by 8-foot dungeon.
Then a complaint brought his adoptive parents to court,
The 70-page complaint tells all the grievances and unfair treatment of the girl in the past ten years.
Since the age of three, he has been chained to a pillar by his adoptive parents and can only live in a messy basement.
And in the past 14 years, her adoptive parents have constantly abused her, which has caused great damage to the girl's psychology.
This makes one wonder, what is the real purpose of this adoptive parents' adoption of her? And how did this girl escape?
Source: China Youth Network - Chinese Girl Complains to American Adoptive Parents with Blood and Tears: Locked in a Dungeon and Forced to Slave for More Than Ten Years? 2023-02-03
Adopted, but it was the beginning of a nightmare
The girl who sued her adoptive parents in court was called Olivia, who was an abandoned baby living in a welfare home in Hunan Province before she was adopted.
In 2004, Olivia was adopted by Dennis and Thomas, and since then she has moved to live abroad, originally thinking that after being adopted, Olivia will have a complete family and her own parents.
But what people didn't expect was that this was not Olivia's happy life, but the beginning of her miserable life for more than ten years, and the beginning of Olivia's nightmare.
Fourteen-month-old Olivia began to be abused not long after she entered the family, and since she began to remember the beating, her house was different from the other children in the family.
It was a very small house, there were no living facilities in the room, no water and no toilet, Olivia could only go to the toilet in the bucket, and most importantly, the basement room was basically not very breathable.
Olivia's eating, drinking, and lazar had to be done in this room, and there was only a small window hanging above her head, and it was hard to imagine how big a smell could be in this small space.
Olivia still doesn't know why she wants to live in such an environment, but her adoptive parents don't know, and they are not satisfied with letting Olivia live in such an environment.
They had prepared a chain in the room, yes, this chain was used to tie Olivia, and Olivia was always chained by this chain when she wasn't released.
Only when she is needed to work, the adoptive parents will release Olivia, and the housework is basically done by Olivia.
With a child who was only a few years old doing so much work, her adoptive parents enjoyed it with peace of mind, not caring if Olivia would be tired or uncomfortable.
Psychologically and spiritually abused
Ironically, Olivia's adoptive parents are actually quite wealthy, and the house they live in is also very affordable in New Boston.
But such a big house usually needs Olivia to clean it alone, and her adoptive parents not only don't help, but also say some bad things.
She was abandoned, they picked it up in the trash, and her adoptive parents would go to the extreme of pouring chili peppers into Olivia's mouth, whether she could eat it spicy or not.
They even forced Olivia to eat their own vomit, and when they were in a bad mood, they would lose their temper with Olivia, and then cut off Olivia's food and not let Olivia go to school.
The other children in the family all went to school, but Olivia never went to school, and what is even more excessive is that although they adopted Olivia, they did not apply for the relevant documents for her.
In other words, Olivia is not allowed to go out of the United States, she is not allowed to do any work, and her adoptive parents have repeatedly threatened her with the idea that she will be deported if she is undocumented.
Although Olivia is the youngest in the family, she is a child who is bullied by everyone, and the three aborigines in the family are also deeply influenced by their parents, so they don't have a good face for Olivia, and when they are in a bad mood, they will vent at Olivia.
Ran away many times but was always sent back
Olivia, who endured inhuman abuse, tried to escape many times, but each time it ended in failure, in fact, Olivia had a chance to escape when she was 8 years old.
Because when one of the other three children in the family was at school, he complained to the teacher, saying that he had been abused at home and was beaten by his parents.
And when he complained, he also focused on the abuse that Olivia suffered at home, and the school took this matter very seriously and immediately called the police.
But this is the one thing that will make the people speechless, the police have come to the door, and they have all seen Olivia's living environment, but they are indifferent.
As if to complete the task, after coming out, he didn't ask anything about Olivia, so Olivia spent another 7 years in hell.
I don't know what benefits Olivia's adoptive parents gave to those policemen, but when Olivia escaped several times, not only did they not help her get out of the sea of suffering, but sent her back, not thinking about what kind of abuse Olivia would have suffered if she returned home at this time.
What's more, when Olivia wanted to run away for the last time, the police stopped her and even let police dogs chase her.
The Shawshank Redemption staged in real life
Escaping again and again will only make Olivia's life more difficult, starving, beating, cold, verbal abuse, etc., which have intensified in Olivia's life.
But Olivia did not give up hope of life, she used her own hands to desperately dig an escape route for herself, and it took her 5 years to successfully escape.
Olivia then took her adoptive parents to court, and handed over a 70-page tragic story about her nightmares.
After Olivia's adoptive parents were arrested by the police, they escaped punishment instead of severe punishment, and one of them was only sentenced to six months in prison.
After such a verdict, the couple sold their house and moved to another city, and Olivia's lawyer was not satisfied with the verdict.
However, Olivia did not compromise, and a few years later, she took her adoptive parents to court again, but this time not only the adoptive parents, but also a series of related institutions and individuals.
At the time of the civil lawsuit, Olivia's lawyer said that Olivia was in better shape now and that she was a wonderful person.
Information source: Nine News - American couples abuse Chinese adopted daughters just because she is Chinese2023-02-16
In the more than ten years of abuse of Olivia, there are too many incredible things that have happened, why the international adoption agency did not visit her home regularly, why the school did not care about Olivia, who had only been in school for one day, and why the police ignored the unfair treatment that Olivia received.
These are big questions, but according to Olivia's lawyers, they believe that Olivia has been treated unfairly for 14 years because she is a Chinese who was adopted from China.
Olivia, who escaped from college, is also gradually coming out of her previous life, 19-year-old Olivia entered the university, believing that after the college life, Olivia will have a new life of her own.
Although there is no latest news from Olivia now, I believe that after the wind and rain, there will always be a rainbow, and Olivia will definitely become a better version of herself.
References
Chinese American girl complained to American adoptive parents with blood and tears: locked in a dungeon and forced to be enslaved for more than ten years? China Youth Network 2023-02-03
American couple abuses Chinese adopted daughter just because she is Chinese Jiupai News 2023-02-16