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Shackled woman drops 'help' note from window
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-01-16 10:43

A young woman managed to escape from her boyfriend's imprisonment after she dropped a handwritten note out of the window.

After she threatened to break up with him, Cheng Xiaopeng tied up the young woman to a heating pipe in his dormitory last July, using an iron chain and lock.

The angry man also lashed her with a leather for hours until she was in a state of near collapse. After he went out of the house, she reached for paper, wrote down "help" on it and threw it out. A man walking outside at that moment called the police who rescued her.

Chen was charged, and last week, he was sentenced to one year in jail for false imprisonment.