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Liya Su

The story of an adult son who was slapped by his furious mother after police arrested him for peeping into public women’s toilets has trended on mainland social media.
The man, from Hubei province in central China, was visited by local police at his home on April 5.
When his mother found out what he had done, she was furious and lashed out at him, Jiaodian Video reported.
“Do you know why we are here?” a police officer asks him.
“I have no idea,” the son answers.

Another officer then plays him a video clip on a phone which was filmed by a woman who saw him crouching on the floor of the women’s toilets.
When he realised he had been found out the man ran from the toilets, and the woman called the police.
“This person in the women’s toilets on the third floor of a dormitory, was that you?” the officer asks the man.
He looks at the video and answers: “Yes, yes.”
As soon as she hears his reply, the mother walks over to where her son is sitting and slaps him repeatedly.
He remains still and silent as the officers stop the angry woman.
“You just can’t change. You do it over and over again,” she says, and kicks him.
“Do you want to irritate me to death?” the mother asks.
Her son eventually gets up from the chair and kneels down in front of his mother and says: “I did something wrong. I’m sorry.”
The officers help him up, handcuff him and take him to the police station.
The son’s behaviour angered many people online.

“It’s really terrible,” one person said.
“It’s even worse that he is a habitual offender,” said another.
“His mother is right to slap him,” someone else commented.
“The mother must be very sad,” wrote another.
Peeping at others is illegal, but it is not considered a crime in China.
In general, offenders are given up to 10 days of administrative detention and fined up to 200 yuan (US$28).


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‘Can’t change you’: adult son in China caught peeping into women’s toilet violently slapped by mother during police call-out

Man crouches on floor in dormitory toilets, woman films him, he runs off Police visit his home, furious mother says ‘You do it over and over again’

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