Man arrested for chaining up daughters in China - report

 From: AFP September 17, 2010 4:14PM Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share

Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these?POLICE have arrested a man in east China for chaining up his two adopted daughters for nearly a week in an empty building under construction, state press said today.

The 30-year-old father identified only by his surname Yang was arrested by police in Jiangxi province on suspicions of child abuse, the Global Times said.

The two four-year-old girls, nicknamed Baobao and Beibei, were found by a security guard on Tuesday in ragged clothes and covered with mosquito bites, the report said.

They were each shackled at the wrist by a 1.5-metre chain attached to a water pipe in a bare room in the building, it added.

The girls said their father came back every night to feed them and that they themselves had urged the security guard not to unlock them out of fear of facing worse punishment, it said.

The father could be sentenced for up to seven years in prison if convicted of abusing the girls, the report said.