In Nanjing at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the lurking enemy agents, hidden thieves and bandits, the scattered soldiers who fled the battlefield, and the idle hooligans all affected the lives of ordinary citizens at all times. But beyond that, there is a more hidden place that is being controlled by the Hand of Evil...
Exterior view of Sacred Heart Children's Home
On May 11, 1950, Liu Jiahe, who was an editor at Xinhua Daily, suddenly received a phone call from the staff of the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. Hearing this, Liu Jiahe giggled in his heart, because the couple was busy with work and their two-year-old daughter had no one to take care of, so they sent the child to this Sacred Heart Children's Home for temporary foster care. Suddenly there is a call, is there something wrong with the child?
There was indeed an accident, and the phone said that Liu Jiahe's only daughter, Liu Jiahe, was in debt and was burned by boiling water! Liu Jiahe quickly put down the phone and rushed to the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital with his sick wife Ding Qi. When they arrived at the place, they saw that their daughter was badly burned and heartbroken. The next day, Liu owed the rescue ineffectively and unfortunately died.
Complaint against Sacred Heart Children's Hospital
How can a two-year-old child be burned by boiling water, is it the negligence of the staff? In fact, on the day she learned that her daughter was burned, Liu Jiahe realized that things were not simple, and her daughter's death should not be an accident. However, because when raising a child, they fill out an "application form" and sign it, and the terms of it give the Sacred Heart Children's Home a lot of power, and they will not admit their responsibility.
Liu Jiahe endured the grief and drafted a complaint on the same day, which was ready to be handed over to xinhua daily to accuse the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. Through the complaint, we also learned more details: Liu Jiahe's wife, Ding Qi, is also an educator, and both are busy. After the birth of their only daughter, the two became busier. So, after much deliberation, they decided to visit sacred heart children's homes.
According to Liu Jiahe's recollection, when the couple personally inspected the children's home, they saw that the place was "wide, the doors and windows were clean, and the environment was not bad", so they decided to send the child over.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > on the surface, Sacred Heart Children's Home is really good. </h1>
Group photo of foreign nuns and Chinese at the end of the Qing Dynasty
It is a charity run by a foreign church, founded in the 1930s, mainly for the adoption of abandoned children. After years of development, Sacred Heart Children's Home has become larger and larger, and its influence has become more and more influential. However, it was not until November 1949 that a foster care centre was added, headed by the French nun Hua Ander. When Liu Yao was burned, there were not many "foster children" here, only a dozen people, and the others were all children adopted by the children's home.
Liu Jiahe's indictment was soon published in Xinhua Daily, and other newspapers in Nanjing reprinted it one after another, demanding that the investigation be clear and the murderer be punished. What kind of secrets are hidden in the Sacred Heart Children's Home?
After the citizens of Nanjing learned about the incident through the newspaper, they were indignant and strongly demanded that the government rescue the other children of the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. At the same time, Liu Jiahe also filed a complaint with the court, suing sacred heart children's home. After forensic evaluation, it was found that "Liu Owe was indeed a severe burn in boiling water, causing sudden death from acidosis." ”
Soon, the Municipal Court, the Health Bureau, the YWCA, Jinling Women's University, the Central Hospital, the Nanjing Orphanage and other 11 units, including some children's families, were established to investigate and collect evidence.
The preliminary findings are shocking: of the 577 children admitted to hospitals from January 1948 to 1950, only 121 were adopted and 372 died, while only 104 infants and young children were left in the children's hospitals, with a mortality rate of 65%.
On June 10, the Municipal Health Bureau, the Central Hospital, the School of Medicine of Nanjing University and the Drum Tower Hospital jointly conducted a physical examination of the children of sacred heart children's hospital. These included 104 adopted persons and 13 foster adopters, for a total of 117 persons. The results showed that all of these children were sick and stunted in general.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="33" > another thing that infuriated the citizens of Nanjing. </h1>
An orphanage opened by foreign missionaries at the end of the Qing Dynasty
What happened to the children at Sacred Heart Children's Home? On the first day of the establishment of the investigation team, a woman stopped the car of the investigation team and cried that her child, Brother Li, was fostered in the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, and had died suddenly a few days ago, without any explanation. The investigation team immediately asked the forensic doctor to identify the cause of death as: "Malnutrition, chronic high hunger, and eventually death from exhaustion." ”
In layman's terms, this poor child was starved to death. After the incident was reported, the citizens of Nanjing were extremely angry and demanded that the investigation team thoroughly investigate the Sacred Heart Children's Home and let the person in charge give an explanation. When the investigation team approached the director of the children's home, Irish nun Lan Yide, and French nun Hua Ande, the two did not say a word, resisting the investigation with silence. The team's initial solution was for Sacred Heart Children's Homes to admit its negligence and publicly apologize to the public. Second, compensate Liu's arrears and Li brother's medical expenses, burial expenses, and nursing expenses.
In fact, the initial suggestion made by the investigation team was to calm the anger of the citizens as soon as possible and solve the current problems, and there was no intention of digging deep into the Sacred Heart Children's Home. However, the two nuns in charge of the children's home were extremely resistant. A week later, the person in charge, Lan Yide, said that unless there is a verdict, the opinions of the investigation team will not be considered. In addition, she also distributed a letter to the citizens of Nanjing, clearly stating: "Our hospital is based on love, and it is absolutely harmless to people's intentions, and Liu Owes is pneumonia and death, and has nothing to do with this hospital... Nanjing citizens must not be gullible (investigation team) that sacred heart children's homes are innocent. ”
They have all made such a fuss, why are foreign nuns still so arrogant? The reasons for this are complex, since foreigners entered China to preach, they have opened a large number of charities, and to a certain extent, they have indeed helped a lot of poor people. After decades of development, they have close contacts with many dignitaries and celebrities, have many privileges, and have an arrogant attitude. Coupled with decades of war, the displacement of ordinary people, and a certain good feeling for foreigners' charities, this has become the biggest confidence of Sacred Heart Children's Home.
In addition, the social order at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China was still unstable, and due to the sabotage and spread of rumors by the enemy and special criminals, some people did not trust the government very much, and the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital seized on this point in an attempt to seduce the citizens and escape responsibility.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > the investigation team understands that at this time, it must be thoroughly investigated! </h1>
Church orphanage in the late Qing Dynasty
First of all, The nun Lan Yide said that Liu Yaoyao died of pneumonia, and the investigation team immediately asked the forensic doctor of Nanda University to identify it again, and according to the X-ray and lung lobe slice analysis, Liu Yaoyao did not have any symptoms of lung inflammation. Her death was entirely due to the fact that the burns were not treated in time, and the infection led to death.
After this conclusion came out, the person in charge of sacred heart children's home still denied it and did not admit his responsibility. In this case, the investigation team began to investigate the caregivers and handymen of the children's home, thus uncovering the horrors.
Handymen at the children's home confirmed that the foreign nuns neglected their children, resulting in a large number of infant deaths. What was even more frightening was that after the children died of disease or starvation, the nuns would strip them of their clothes, wrap them in newspaper, tie them with straw ropes, and put them into a cardboard box after two or three. Because so many children die, two or three are buried every other day or two in the summer. In the winter, it will not be buried every day, and after five or six of them, they are buried in a pit, and some handymen said that at most seven at a time.
There are also children who, when they are dying, are wrapped in newspaper by caregivers and buried. Before liberation, it was generally buried outside in a mass grave, which was the responsibility of a handyman named Zhang Wangshi. After liberation, they did not dare to bury outside, so they dug a pit in the yard and buried it. In the broad bean field of sacred heart children's homes, the investigation team dug up more than 120 corpses in a row...
To the shock of the investigation team, these buried children were originally tied with straw ropes, but some of the corpses at the scene have been loosened, which means that the children may still be alive and struggling when they are buried!
After this discovery was announced, the city of Nanjing was in an uproar. The investigation team buried the bodies and bones in small coffins, and the next day a large number of citizens came to watch, and in just two days, about fifteen thousand citizens came to the Sacred Heart Children's Home to watch. On the 21st, about 30,000 people from all walks of life in Nanjing came to denounce the Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, and the rows of small coffins made many people shed tears, and everyone now understands that the self-proclaimed charity nuns are so vicious.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > to this point, the foreign nuns of sacred heart children's homes are still tough. </h1>
Newspapers at the time reported it
Seven foreign nuns, including Lan Yide, Hua Ande and Bai Jiezhen, refused to hand over the Sacred Heart Children's Home to the government for investigation and management. The investigation team had no choice but to file an indictment with the court and brought the nuns to court. At this time, the foreign nun Bai Jiezhen handed over a roster (now in the Nanjing Municipal Archives). The roster, which records the adoption and death of children, was filled out by Randyd himself.
The steady stream of adopted children does not matter if they die soon, because they can win the sympathy of society and receive a large amount of alms. At the same time, because he is engaged in charity, he has close contacts with celebrities and has a high social status. Although there is not enough evidence to prove that the nuns of the Sacred Heart Children's Institute have taken the initiative to kill children, this insensitive and irresponsible attitude is enough to prove that they are demonic figures!
On January 25, 1951, the Nanjing Municipal Court sentenced Hua Ande to six months in prison, suspended for one year, and expelled from China forever for manslaughter. Dean Lan Yide neglected the lives of children, resulting in many deaths of children, and arbitrarily distributed leaflets, distorted the facts, sentenced him to 6 months in prison, suspended for one year, and expelled from China forever. Sacred Heart Children's Hospital compensated Liu Jiahe with 2 million yuan (old currency) and published a newspaper to apologize to the people of the city...
Dean Xia Zhenying, who took over the Sacred Heart Children's Home
A few months later, a British delegation came to Nanjing to raise the issue of sacred heart children's homes, which they did not believe that nuns would cause so many deaths, and they did not believe that the "baby homes" run by Chinese could be better than foreign charities. However, when they saw the evidence and photos with their own eyes, as well as after personally visiting the Nanjing Infant Hospital, they learned the truth of the matter and saw the life of the children now, and there was nothing more to say.
In fact, some of the foreign missionaries and nuns from the end of the Qing Dynasty did not come entirely for "charity". A casual glance at some of the notes and local chronicles of the late Qing Dynasty reveals that many cases of foreign missionaries harboring "parishioners" for wrongdoing are shocking.