Every now and then we include a non-Buddhist speaker on our "Thought for the Day" page. This moving piece is by the Rev. Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Piccadilly, and is about the horrific killing of Yue Yue, the little Chinese girl run over twice in the street and ignored by passers-by. Since this was broadcast Yue Yue has died.
CCTV footage of little Yue Yue lying horrifically injured as people stepped around her in the road caused outrage around the world and sparked a fierce debate about morality in China.
Thousands of pounds have been donated to her family to help pay for treatment but Yue Yue died on Friday of brain and organ failure.
A hospital official said: “Her injuries were too severe and the treatment had no effect.”
Her tearful mother, Qu Feifei described how she had told her daughter: “Don’t give up on mum. Mum is not giving up. Let mum have one more chance to love and spoil you.”
Yue Yue was hit by a van driver who failed to stop in a street in the southern Guandong province city of Foshan.
The footage shows 18 people walk or drive by before another van runs over her seven minutes later.
A scavenger finally came to her aid, took her to hospital and found her parents.
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