Outrage after China officials say schoolgirl stabbed 200 times with sewing awl ‘not bullying’


By Fran Lu

Outrage has erupted in China after officials claimed that a boy who stabbed his classmate over 200 times with a sewing awl did not meet the standards of bullying. - Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/QQ.com/Taobao

BEIJING: China is outraged after officials in eastern China said that a case in which a boy stabbed his classmate more than 200 times with a sewing awl over three months “did not meet the standards of bullying”.

According to the victim’s parents, their daughter was stabbed in her thigh by a male transfer student at the school in Shandong province, according to the Chinese media outlet Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

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