The Heartbreaking Story Behind Why A Mother Has Kept Her Son In A Cage For Over 40 Years
“He can’t control himself. When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris."
By Sadho Ram — 14 Dec 2013, 11:00 AM — Updated almost 11 years ago
A Chinese man has spent more than 40 years locked in a cage by his 80-year-old mother
According to the Daily Mail, 48-year-old Peng Weiqing has been kept in the cage in his mother’s Zhengzhou home, in central China’s Henan Province, since he was 6 years old.
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Peng Waimei, Weiqing’s mother, says that she only treated her son this way to protect him.
When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris
As a baby, Weiqing suffered brain damage following a fever. He then begun suffering severe epilectic fits at the age of six.
She told Rex Features: “He can’t control himself. When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris."
Peng Weiqing has spent most of the past four decades locked in a cage at the home of his mother Peng Waimei
Image via huffpost.com“Even when he was walking, he could suddenly fall down and hit his face and make it bleed.”
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Fearing that he would hurt himself and unable to afford medical treatment, Waimei's husband built a series of cages that got bigger as Weiqing grew.
mirror.co.ukSince the death of her husband, she and her son live alone in an apartment in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan Province
Waimei feeds her son through the bar of the cage, cleans and clothes him.
But with her own health deteriorating, she fears for Wiqing’s future when she dies.
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His mother Weimei, seen here feeding him through the bars of the cage, is worried what will happen to her son when she dies
Image via dailymail.co.uk“He must know me, although he may not know the meaning of ‘mom’. He is my 48-year-old kid.”
Waimei fears for her son when she dies and hopes to find someone to take care of him. She has appealed for someone to help look after him after she dies.
