3-Year-Old Child 'Pushed Mother to Death' Down a Lift Shaft

A three-year-old child took accountability of his mother's death in China. A mother in China's city of Ningbo died on Saturday after falling off a lift shaft, according to The Telegraph UK. Ningbo is located in China's Eastern region.

The mom was identified as 45-year-old Xie Hong Feng. Xie allegedly tried to look for her home keys below the elevator's shaft in her flat building that weekend morning. Her three-year-old son was with her while she searched for her keys.

The building's landlord, Yang Shao, helped her tenant look for the missing keys. The two ladies forcibly opened the elevator's doors from the fifth floor to look for the keys below the lift's shaft. 

"She [Xie] was taking some rubbish out but on the way down dropped her keys and she wanted me to help her get them," Shao narrated, according to News.com.au. "I told her I would manually move the lift up one storey while keeping the door open so she could try and get her keys, which she had dropped in the narrow space between the lift and the 5th floor."

The flat property manager turned her back for a few moments. Afterwards, she was horrified when she saw Xie gone. Shao then discovered that Xie's young son pushed his mother to death down the lift shaft.

"When I asked him where his mummy was he said he had pushed her," Shao said. "I looked over the edge and saw her body lying at the bottom of the shaft. I immediately grabbed him and phoned the police."

"The thing that makes me the saddest is that my wife has gone and my son will have to carry the blame for his whole life," said the boy's father and Xie's husband, who only revealed his name as Mr. Tang, in an interview with a local TV station.

Stuff.co.nz revealed that a law enforcement spokesman said that no other details were available about the incident. "Unfortunately there is no surveillance footage on that floor apart from inside the lifts so we have no way of really knowing what happened," he said.

With regard the toddler's accountability on the accident, the police spokesman only had this to say, "But if the boy says he pushed her then we will have to accept that, although we won't be pressing charges as this was certainly an accident."

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