China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs

A former Chinese soldier who lent his six children out to criminal gangs and regularly beat them has had them taken away by the authorities.

The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.