'Mentally ill' Chinese girl, 8, tied to a tree for six years

An eight-year-old Chinese girl has been tied to a tree outside her grandparents' home for six years because she suffers from mental illness. Zhao Ziyi’s grandparents said they first strapped her to the tree outside their home in 2010 after she became mentally ill and started to hit people, Henan Television reported. The girl was filmed barefoot with ropes tied around her neck and chest when reporters visited her home, in Henan province, in September.
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