Mom recovering from trauma after ‘husband cut off her hand’
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A YOUNG mother whose husband is alleged to have cut off her hand told Shanghai Daily yesterday of her shock in trying to come to terms with what has happened.
The 29-year-old, surnamed Qing, was admitted to hospital on Sunday morning after her left hand was severed at the wrist by a cleaver. The fingers on the hand were also damaged.
Surgery to reattach Qing’s hand just before midnight the same day at 455 Hospital in Changning District proved unsuccessful.
Qing’s 39-year-old husband, surnamed Chen, has been held by police.
Speaking from her hospital bed yesterday, Qing was still struggling to understand what led to her losing her hand.
“I don’t know why he suddenly did this to me,” Qing said, her eyes welling up with tears as she stared at the ceiling.
Qing, who lives in Suzhou, in neighboring Jiangsu Province, told Shanghai Daily that her husband often accused her of having affairs.
She claims that Chen kidnaped her from the factory in Suzhou where she works on Saturday, took her to Shanghai and locked her in a house in the Pudong New Area.
According to Qing, her husband had abused and threatened her in the past.
“I was thinking of divorce, but many people told me not to for our kid’s sake,” Qing said.
The 3-year-old son of Chen and Qing, natives of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, is looked after by Chen’s parents in Sichuan.
In January, Qing said she moved away from home to make extra money for the family, but her husband was suspicious that she was having an affair.
She claims that he sent threatening text messages, including one stating, “I’ll leave you disabled so that nobody will want you. You’ll be mine.”
Qing said she saved the messages to use as evidence should she seek a divorce.
With Qing at hospital yesterday was her aunt, surnamed Gao.
She told Shanghai Daily that while many people were around when her niece was said to have been kidnapped, no one intervened.
Instead they ignored what was happening as it was a “domestic” incident, said Gao.
Qing’s first husband died in an accident and she met Chen on a blind date in 2009, said Gao.
“She thought Chen looked like an honest and kind man,” Gao said.
That’s why she married him, despite the fact that he didn’t have much money and is much older than her, she added.
“We never expected this,” said Gao.
Also at Qing’s bedside was her first husband’s mother, who asked not to be named.
She said Chen had called for an ambulance after the incident and asked her to come to Shanghai to look after Qing.
“Qing is a very nice girl. That’s why even now I’ve come here to look after her,” she said.
Qing’s mother died years ago and her father is now said to be attempting to raise money to pay for medical treatment in her hometown.
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