{"id":209578,"date":"2019-04-12T04:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209578"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:08:08","slug":"mom-of-3-year-old-model-in-china-sorry-over-apparent-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/12\/mom-of-3-year-old-model-in-china-sorry-over-apparent-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom of 3 year old model in China sorry over apparent beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_209585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209585\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/niuniu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209585\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/niuniu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/niuniu.jpg 306w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/niuniu-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/niuniu-12x20.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Screenshot of the video that made rounds to netizens (Weibo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 The mother of a Chinese child model has apologized after videos of her appearing to beat her daughter appeared online, sparking outrage and debate about the country&#8217;s highly competitive child modelling industry.<\/p>\n<p>Videos surfaced online this week showing a woman kicking, slapping and hitting a toddler with a clothes hanger as she appears to be posing for photo shoots.<\/p>\n<p>Internet users identified the child as Niuniu, a 3-year-old girl who models clothes sold on e-commerce website Taobao.<\/p>\n<p>Niuniu&#8217;s mother published a statement Wednesday apologizing for her actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs shown in the video, my slightly large movements in the process of communicating guidance were in no way intended to cause harm,\u201d she wrote on the Weibo microblog platform.<\/p>\n<p>Niuniu&#8217;s mother, who did not disclose her name, said she \u201ccaused everyone to misunderstand,\u201d for which she felt \u201cdeeply sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taobao shared on its official Weibo account a news report about the videos along with a statement of support for the Taobao sellers who sounded the alarm over Niuniu&#8217;s well-being. The statement said the appeals from kind-hearted e-commerce sellers were the best way to provide children with timely protection.<\/p>\n<p>Some Taobao shops pledged to reduce the use of child models and more closely monitor possible mistreatment of child models. Others condemned the child modelling industry&#8217;s inherent pressures and vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 3-year-old child lacks the basic cognitive skills to understand such circumstances,\u201d said lawyer Lyu Xiaoquan.<\/p>\n<p>Lyu&#8217;s law firm, the Beijing-based Qianqian, represents \u201cvulnerable groups\u201d such as women and children. The lawyer is opposed to child modelling as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Children&#8217;s) privacy and commercial rights might be violated, and they might not be aware of whether this behaviour will have a negative impact on their values and upbringing,\u201d Lyu said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2014 The mother of a Chinese child model has apologized after videos of her appearing to beat her daughter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":209585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209586,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209578\/revisions\/209586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}