Two women in China have been accused of child abuse after they separated a crying toddler from her grandmother and locked her in the toilet of a plane, on a domestic flight. In a video uploaded by one of the women to social media, the girl can been seen wailing and trying to get out of the locked lavatory door.
An incident which saw two women lock a crying toddler in an aeroplane toilet has sparked an online debate in China on how to manage children in public spaces.
The incident went viral on the Chinese internet after one of the two women, Gou Tingting, posted a video of herself carrying the girl inside the cubicle.
In her post, she presented herself as trying to help others on board, but was swiftly met with backlash.
The airline later said that the girl's grandmother had given the two women permission to "educate her".
The incident took place on 24 August onboard a Juneyao Airlines flight from the southwestern city of Guiyang to Shanghai.
The toddler, who was travelling with her grandmother, had started crying during the flight.
This is the moment two women locked a crying toddler in a plane's toilet to 'educate her' after enraged passengers reportedly stuffed tissues in their ears to blank out the child's screaming.
Footage shows the little girl crying and screaming to be let out of the small plane toilet cubicle on the Juneyao Airlines flight from Guiyang to Shanghai on August 24 while the women watch on.
The toddler, who was travelling with her grandparents, had reportedly been crying non-stop during the flight and people onboard said that she was so loud, some passengers had put tissues in their ears to block out the noise and moved to the back of the aircraft.
Passengers complained that the little girl's grandparents seemed to have no idea how to stop her crying and attempts to distract her with a mobile phone proved unsuccessful.
THIS is the shocking moment two women lock a crying toddler in a plane toilet to "teach her a lesson".
The pair had reached the end of their tether listening to the tot's tantrum and, with her nan's permission, they decided to take matters into their own hands.
In a shocking incident, two passengers on a Juneyao Airlines flight from Guiyang in southwestern China to Shanghai locked a crying toddler in an aeroplane bathroom on Saturday (24th August).
Notably, the incident went viral on Chinese social media after one of the two women, Gou Tingting, shared a video of herself bringing the girl inside the plane toilet. Tingting claimed that she was attempting to help others on board. However, her actions attracted severe backlash.
Later, the airline stated that the girl’s grandmother had permitted the two women to “educate her”. It added that the toddler’s grandmother was waiting at the restroom door when the incident unfolded.
Two passengers on a flight sparked a backlash in China after they locked up a toddler in an airplane toilet to stop her from crying.
The incident on the flight from Guiyang to Shanghai sparked a heated online debate about how to handle crying children in public spaces.
The two passengers who locked the distressed toddler in the toilet claimed they were trying to help others. However, many people on social media accused them of “bullying” the child and lacking empathy.
According to Juneyao Airlines, the child’s grandmother had given permission to the women to "educate" the crying child. The video showed one of the women telling the child that she could only leave the bathroom if she stopped crying.
Two passengers aboard a Juneyao Airlines flight from Guiyang in southwestern China to Shanghai on Saturday locked a crying toddler in an airplane bathroom.
One of the passengers posted a video of the incident on Chinese social media. The video has since gone viral and generated intense backlash.
Sixth Tone, an English-language, state-run Chinese media outlet, identified the woman who filmed the incident as Gou Tingting.
Sixth Tone reported that in a caption for the now-deleted video — originally posted on Douyin, China's version of TikTok — Gou said the child's crying was so loud that passengers used tissues to try to block out the sound.
The outlet said one of the women could be heard in the footage telling the wailing child they wouldn't let her out unless she stopped crying.
The video has been met with fierce backlash in China.

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