Woman takes children in chains for walk in Hong Kong
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Monday September 4, 2006
Hong Kong- A woman filmed by a passer-by as she walked her two children in a busy Hong Kong street in chains has been tracked down by social workers, a news report said Tuesday. The picture shot last week on a mobile phone showed the children, both under five, restrained with straps attached to the mother's waist with chains, said a report in the South China Morning Post.
The evidence was handed over to the Social Welfare Department by the concerned passer-by and used to track down the woman.
The news report said that social workers said the children had been checked by doctors and kept overnight in a hospital but showed no sign of injuries. Officials said they were now looking at ways to help the family, who are believed to have arrived recently from mainland China.
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