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Six-year-old kept in a chicken cage for a year

Chongqing Evening NewsJuly 22, 2009 For over a year, a six-year-old girl was kept by her grandmother in a bamboo cage in Chongqing, the Chongqing Evening News reports. The girl, identified as Yangyang, lost her mother last year. Her father, a migrant... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Jul 22 2009

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