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The Young Chinese Woman Was Chained for More Than a Decade and Forced to Give Birth, Then Her Viral Story Circulated The Internet

The tragic case of Xiao Huamei

Lioness Rue
6 min readMar 25, 2023
Xiao Huamei — image from Stephanie Soo

A Douyin user noticed a dilapidated hut in the corner of the Dong residence. Then he saw a pale person peeking out.

He went inside the shed only to find a woman that looked hungry, malnourished, and tortured.

The malnourished woman had a few teeth left in her mouth. She appeared as if her soul had been ripped out of her body.

The woman was chained by her neck to the wall.

She wore very thin clothes in the middle of winter.

Next to her laid a bowl with frozen food and a moldy beat-up blanket lying on the ground.

The Discovery of Dong’s Family

A few years back, Dong Zhimin, a father of eight children, went viral on Douyin. Douyin is a Chinese counterpart of TikTok.

His family was discovered in Feng County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, by an influencer.

The Douyin influencer got touched by the family’s living conditions and shared the story with the world.

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