Girl's death triggers calls for better crowd funding supervision

Local police in Henan province are looking into accusations that a mother raised money online for her three-year-old daughter with eye cancer but failed to use the money for her treatment.

Experts are also calling for tightened management of online charity crowd funding to make sure the money is properly used.

Yang Meiqin, a woman in Taikang county and mother of five, raised money twice via Shuidichou, an online crowd funding platform, for medical treatment for her fourth daughter, Wang Fengya, in November and March after the girl was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a type of eye cancer that occurs mostly in children.