A Chinese family received negative attention from netizens recently and were accused of misusing money crowdsourced to treat their daughter’s eye tumor. The daughter Wang…
A Chinese family received negative attention from netizens recently and were accused of misusing money crowdsourced to treat their daughter’s eye tumor.
The daughter Wang Fengya died. She lived in Taikang county in Henan province. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, an article that went viral accused her parents of using the crowdfunded money for her brother’s cleft palate surgery at a high-end clinic in Beijing, instead of using it for her.
Wang’s mother, Yang Meiqin, was said to have gone to the fundraising website shuidichou.com to raise 150,000 yuan, (about P1.2 million), to remove a malignant tumor from Wang’s eye. Netizens accused Yang of the traditional Chinese mindset of favoring boys over girls, said the report.
