baby slashed by family maid

[Amby 490]

SHANGHAI — A 20-month-old Shanghai girl was recovering Thursday after her family's maid, angry at her employers, put her on a chopping block and slashed her face with a kitchen knife, police said.

Police in the southern Shanghai district of Nanhui confirmed the attack, reported in the state-run newspaper Shanghai Daily. They refused further comment.

The baby's mother was also injured while trying to wrestle the knife away from the maid after she heard her daughter screaming late Tuesday night, the report said.

The newspaper carried a photo of the baby showing her with a long gash running across her chin from one jaw to the other. Doctors used 130 stitches to close her wounds, it said.

Police arrested Zhang Xuexia, 47, who was said to be angry because she believed the family was planning to fire her.

Many Shanghai families employ domestic helpers from the countryside, and relations can often be tense, especially around the time of the Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday.

The report said that Zhang, who like many maids in Shanghai was from nearby Anhui province, thought the family planned to send her back to her village because they bought her a ticket to go home for the holiday, which begins Jan. 25.

The family said they gave her the ticket to let her go back to see her family.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479984,00.html

[alienlovechild 75]

The newspaper carried a photo of the baby showing her with a long gash running across her chin from one jaw to the other. Doctors used 130 stitches to close her wounds, it said.

Police arrested Zhang Xuexia, 47, who was said to be angry because she believed the family was planning to fire her.

She's fired now. That kid will be scarred for life.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Oh my.

[Nagishkaw 510]

This is very disturbing. ####### is wrong with people???

[Amby 490]

This is very disturbing. ####### is wrong with people???

I have no clue!

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

maybe they should send that maid to take care of the house for these people:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=172162

[Uncle Wally 2]

Man, that's just plain messed up, any way you slice it.

[Uncle Wally 2]

And why wouldn't the police make any additional comments? Perhaps the reporter should go back to the police station and take another stab at it.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

And why wouldn't the police make any additional comments? Perhaps the reporter should go back to the police station and take another stab at it.

she's in deep doo-doo, any way you slice it.

[Uncle Wally 2]

And why wouldn't the police make any additional comments? Perhaps the reporter should go back to the police station and take another stab at it.

she's in deep doo-doo, any way you slice it.

Ooooo! I already did that one. See above?

Try again. Come on, chop-chop!

[msu17 0]

So people buy you a ticket to go visit your family for the holidays and you forever scar their child... What a complete moron. Why are people SO incapable of thinking through ANYTHING! THis is why overly emotional people drive me nuts.

[DeadPoolX 9]

The only good thing I can think of here is at least the kid is very young, so the wound has a good chance of healing without leaving an extremely obvious scar. In addition, most children forget anything before three or four years of age (called "infantile amnesia"), so there's that going for her too.

[Jasman0717 9]

SICK