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Transtlate Police in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province are still investigating why the dead body of a 3-year-old boy, who had A(H1N1) flu, was abandoned inside a trench, just days after he was taken out of hospital.
The boy, Zhou Hongdu, first showed flu symptoms on November 26 and was diagnosed with A(H1N1) flu, acute bronchopneumonia, respiratory failure and thrombopenic purpura on December 3.
Relatives of the boy's parents first said doctors of the Guangzhou Children's Hospital, where the boy was admitted to, told them that the boy had zero chance of survival.
The boy was taken out of the hospital by his parents and relatives on December 6, and the parents, both from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, were not aware that the boy had A(H1N1) flu, Chongqing Evening News reported.
Three days later, cleaning workers found the body in a dry trench 20 kilometers away.
Two cousins of the boy's father told reporters that they thought the boy died at the hospital.
But the hospital said the boy was still alive when the boy's father Zhou Changjun signed a waiver to get his son out, which was against doctors' advice.
Yangcheng Evening News reported Saturday that Zhou had admitted signing the waiver, but it was his uncle, cousin and elder brother who removed the boy.
Zhou's couple said they didn't know what happened afterward because it was a taboo to bury their own son in Guangxi, so they asked three relatives to take care of it.
Zhou Changfeng, the father's older brother, said he thought the hospital continued the treatment for money when the kid was already "dead."
He said the hospital refused to cremate the boy, so that they found someone else to take care of it.
An eyewitness said the boy was handed over to "body dealers" and squeezed into a backpack outside the hospital's back door at the night of December 6, according to Southern Metropolis Daily.
Villagers back in Zhou's hometown said it was common to desert dead bodies, as they had a custom of simple burial for the early dead.
Zhu Yongping, a lawyer in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, said the parents committed intentional homicide if the child was not dead when being abandoned.
"It the child died then, it was not a crime that they abandoned his body in fear of infection," he said.
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