Homework Row Led to the Death of a Girl

A nine-year old girl was beaten to death by her mother for failing to finish the day's homework in time.
Liu Lin- was a third-year pupil in a primary school in a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Northwest Qinghai Province: She was one of the best students in her school, according to yesterday's Workers' Daily.
But on July 10, she did not do her arithmetic homework when Sun Fengxia, her mother, got home from work at 16:00 p.m.

Sun severely beat her daughter with a rolling pin, the newspaper said.
By 19:30 p.m. that evening, she found that her daughter had done only part of the homework, and she became even more angry.
Sun slapped her daughter in the face and kicked her, according to the paper.
Lin became unconscious and later died despite efforts of doctors to save her.
Such cases are not rare in China.

In December last year in the province, Wu Yuxia beat her nine-year old son Xia Fei to death . She later committed suicide in a prison.
In Dalian of Northeast Liaoning Province, Li Liansheng beat his 14- year old son Li Guobin to death in March last year because the boy was playing truant.
In Nanjing, capital of coastal Jiangsu Province, 19-year old Wang Lin killed his parents at home because they forced him to try to get good marks in examinations.