Timely release of information nips rumors in the bud
ON OCT 2, three women violently snatched an 11-month-old baby from her mother in a shopping mall in Fengtai district, Beijing. They were stopped by people in the mall and the police detained the three suspects for three days, without submitting them for criminal charges. People's Daily comments:
The woman whose baby the women tried to snatch complained online that the penalty the women received was too light, and called for judicial punishments for them, instead of the simple public security penalty of detainment.
On Oct 6, the Beijing police responded, saying the three women had committed the deed on the orders of a 62-year-old, whose daughter-in-law refused to let her see her grandson. She asked her three "friends" to bring her grandson to her, but they snatched the wrong baby.
