Chinese parents have admitted to putting their son in chains
and refusing to let him go as a punishment for constant stealing.
Father Wen Yuan, 47, chained up his son, Chuang, 24, because
he believed his thieving habits had brought shame on the family.
As a result he tied his son to his bedroom in their house in
Xibianban village in south China's Jiangxi province, for fear that if he didn't
stop his son from stealing, he would soon end up in jail.
Chuang was chained by the neck to a heavy concrete block,
which he placed in the boy's bedroom so that he couldn't do anything but move
around the room and sit in his bed.
Wen Yuan said: 'It isn't exactly a large community here, when
something is stolen everybody knows who's to blame.
'I always had to compensate my neighbours and apologise for
what he had stolen if I couldn't return it and I just got fed up with it.
'I can't keep paying compensation all the time because I just
can't afford it and eventually someone was can call the police and he would
have been locked up.
'I don't think once you been jailed would be any chance of
correcting him and so we have kept him at home and chained him up to remind him
exactly what a wonderful thing is to have freedom.'
He said that every time the youngster had stolen something he
had given him repeating warnings.
But he explained that nothing had helped over the years. So
Chuang's parents felt they only had one option: a prolonged stay in chains.
Wen Yuan added: 'I don't know how long they will people like
that, we need to be convinced he's learned his lesson and is prepared to become
a proper part of the community.'
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