Six Cult Members Arrested After Woman Beaten To Death In China McDonald’s
A woman was beaten to death inside McDonald's with a mop handle by six people, who are said to be members of a religious cult.
By Sadho Ram — 02 Jun 2014, 03:57 AM — Updated over 10 years ago
On 28 May, A Bald Man Repeatedly Hit A Woman With A Steel Mop Handle, Beating Her To Death, Amid Terrified Screams At A McDonald's In Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China
Gruesome footage of the incident in Zhaoyuan, eastern China, has been posted on the Internet. It shows a man hitting the woman victim in the head with a metal bar as people watch on. The woman, said to be a mother in her 20s, is heard screaming out in pain.
nydailynews.comThe cruelty shocked viewers with terror, and the fact it happened without interference from any people around left others in anger, asking why no one tried to stop the beating. This is just one of the hard questions people face in China after the woman was bashed to death in McDonalds.
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The Police Arrived At The Scene Within Minutes And Arrested Six People Who Are Now Believed To Be Members Of "Quan Neng Shen," Translated To English As "All-Powerful Spirit", Reports Guardian Liberty Voice
It is considered as one of the 14 religious cults in China. This group of six was gathering numbers to recruit new members.
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The bald man surnamed Zhang was its leader and other members include his three children and two other women.
The victim was 37-year-old surnamed Wu who was dining alone and refused to disclose her number to Zhang’s group.
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Details Of The Case Were Not Officially Disclosed. From Tianya Bulletin Board System, A Popular Forum In China, Discussions On This Case Have Multiple Fronts.
Screenshot from the video of Zhang's friends joining in on the alleged assault, kicking her in the head, she was left lying in a pool of her own blood on the ground
Image via dailymail.co.ukAlleged witness posted the details stating that one of the two women in Zhang’s group started scolding Wu since she refused to give her phone number. Later the woman lifted a chair to hit Wu. When Wu was about to fight back, Zhang started the brutal beating.
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All group members participated. Zhang was kicking Wu’s head in addition to bashing her with the stick. No matter what the surrounding people said about “calling the police,” the group continued the cruelty till the police arrived at the scene.
The same post also disclosed that some young guys were about to interfere but were stopped by others who were calling the police, as Zhang’s group was shouting whoever interferes would die.
The Region Where The Incident Happened, Is A Traditional Hotbed For Religious Cults. It Gave Birth To The Violent Anti-Christian Boxer Movement That Laid Siege To Western Interests In Beijing During The Waning Years Of The Qing Dynasty In 1900.
State broadcaster CCTV said religious material had been found at a location linked to the sect but gave no further details. A clerk who answered the phone at Zhaoyuan police headquarters said no one was available to comment on the case.
go.comAll-powerful spirit, or "Quan Neng Shen" in Chinese, was founded in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang in the early 1990s and later spread to the country's eastern provinces, the newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
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The Cult Has A Long History Of Forcefully Recruiting Members. It Claims The Communist Party Is The Great Red Dragon And Calls Members To Fight With It.
It said the group promoted a philosophy based on a distorted reading of the Christian Bible and had been banned as an "evil cult" by the government in 1995, although that could not be immediately confirmed.
go.comAt the end of 2012, it gained popularity quickly as the end of world was supposed to approach. Its members were gathering and spreading flyers about doomsday. The Party arrested thousands of them.
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Another paper, the Beijing Morning News, said 17 members of the group had been arrested in Beijing in December 2012 for harassing people in a public park with claims that the world was coming to an end.