It was recently discovered that a pathologically violent man in Guangzhou has been chained to a wall for 13 years. In a scenario more worthy of a dungeon in the dark ages than the 1990s, an elderly woman fastened her son to a wall via a leash-like chain after becoming disturbed by his increasingly unstable mental state. more ›

Now, that'll learn the little larcenist. In Pudong around 11:30am on Sunday, a couple from Anhui province tied up their 12-year-old son from a metal frame used for hanging clothes and used a whip to demonstrate traditional child-rearing techniques. The boy was being punished for stealing 300RMB from his parents, who work as electronic waste recyclers, to play video games. Considering that some will sell their kids to get their gaming fix, a little pocketing of your parents' rent money seems harmless in comparison. more ›

We've had some ill-tempered teachers in the past but nothing as bad as this. A 24-year-old kindergarten schoolmarm, frustrated by her wards, took a page from recent spiky activities in Xinjiang and began stabbing them with syringes as a form of discipline. She was taken into custody after parents, justifiably angry about the abuse, complained to police. One mother said her four-year-old daughter had been stabbed multiple times. The school (an unlicensed one in Jianshui) said it knew nothing about the incident and that the teacher's performance had been "good." more ›