Father arrested for beating 2-year-old

GUANGZHOU: Police have arrested a man in Dongguan city of Guangdong province for allegedly beating his two-year-old daughter into a coma after she could not stop playing with her fingernails, local media reported yesterday.

According to the Second Procuratorate of Dongguan, the man, surnamed Fu, slapped his daughter's face, pinched her ears and forced her to kneel on the floor for periods of time between May 20 and June 3.

All this because he tried unsuccessfully to stop the girl, named Juanjuan, from playing with her fingernails and thumb until they bled, the Dongguan Daily reported.